Chapter 3 Key Terms
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Aporia: Placing a claim in doubt by developing arguments on both sides of the issue. In my mind this deals with being open-minded and allowing opposing views.
Arete: Virtue; an ability to manage one’s personal affairs in an intelligent manner, and to succeed in public life. Human excellence, natural leadership ability.
Boule: Representative body of 500 Athenian citizens that met daily to supervise the city.
Chiasmus: Rhetorical device that takes its name from the reversing of elements in parallel clauses, forming an X in the sentence.
Demos: The people
Dialektike: Dialectic, the method of investigating philosophical issues by the give and take of argument. A method of teaching that involved training students to argue either side of a case.
Dissoi Logoi: Contradictory arguments
Eikos: Arguing from probability
Ekklesia: The ruling Athenian Assembly
Endoxa: The probable premises from which dialectic began. Premises that were widely believed.
Epideixis: A speech prepared for a formal occasion
Eristic: Discourse’s power to express, to captivate, to argue, or to injure.
Gnorimoi: An elite group enjoying higher social status in Athens than members of the demos.
Hataera: Educated female courtesan.
Heuristic: Discourse’s capacity for discovery, whether of facts, insights, or even of self-awareness
Isegoria: The right of all free male citizens to speak in public settings and assemblies.
Kairos: Rhetoric’s search for relative truth rather than absolute certainty; a consideration of opposite points of view, as well as attention to such factors as time and circumstances. An opportune moment or situation. Also, a sense of decorum regarding public speech.
Logographos: A professional speechwriter
Logos: Word; argument. Also, a transcendent source of truth for Plato.
Metoikoi: In ancient Athens, a resident foreigner
Nomos: Social custom or convention; rule by agreement among the citizens
Paideia: A course of study
Peitho: Greek Goddess of persuasion
Physis: The law of rule of nature under which the strong dominate the weak.
Polis: In ancient Greece, an independent city-state
Protreptic: The possibility for persuading others to think as they think, to act as they wish them to act.
Psychagogos: A poet, a leader of souls through a kind of incantation
Pythia: Woman considered to be in intimate contact with the gods
Sophistes: An authority, an expert, a teacher. A teacher of rhetoric
Techne: A practical art, a science, or a systematic study
Thesmos: Law derived from the authority of kings