Monthly Archives: January 2018

The Challenges of Contemporary Rhetoric Echoed in Understanding Plato

Reading Booth’s “How Many ‘Rhetorics’?”, I could not help but recall an earlier discussion of Rhetoric that I had in a course on Plato. While the discussion was only short, the topics stuck in my head. The Euthydemus is a dialogue … Continue reading

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Rhetoric.

A lot of this topic focused on the idea of rhetoric.  At first I thought, we focused mainly on the idea of rhetoric, but the first unit was supposed to be focused on the idea of what American society looked … Continue reading

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Deconstructing the Social Through (and within) Rhetoric

This week, I was introduced to the discipline of rhetoric, which in simpler terms, involves the art of persuasion, speaking well, and expressing clearly (Booth 6). As a student of sociology, I have often discussed the role of public address … Continue reading

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Boothe’s Views Of Contemporary Rhetoric

This week in class we talked about Boothe’s views on Contemporary Rhetoric. This was of great interest to me as I had not read these texts in another class (unlike the Nietzche and Kant) and also had not really looked … Continue reading

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Public vs. Private, and Social Media

I figured that I would write my post about the notion of public and private knowledge, relative to enlightenment, since I didn’t really understand it in Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” (1784). Upon some closer reading, this is what I’ve come … Continue reading

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