Gorgias - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Postmodernismtrue - correct answer t/f: a reaction to the evils of modernism true - correct answer t/f: views truth claims as political power plays social construct - correct answer what does postmodernism view truth as? false - correct answer t/f: ultimate knowledge is accessible. false (metanarratives are sus) - correct answer t/f: postmodernism accepts metanarratives as truth after modernism - correct answer what does postmodernism mean? Modernism - correct answer what was t...

Chapter 7 World Views PostmodernismPostmodernism? - correct answer Skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to modernism Postmodernism is a reaction to what? - correct answer Evils of modernism Postmodernism believes that truth claims are what? - correct answer Power claims What is social construct? - correct answer Truth is a collection of artifacts Postmodernism means what? - correct answer After modernism Time period of modernism? - correct answer What 4 key things does mo...

PSYC 375 Quiz 1 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Zeitgeist means: - answerA spirit of the times Correlational laws allow for prediction, but causal laws permit prediction and __________: - answercontrol The belief that human behavior is determined but the causes of behavior cannot be accurately measured is most compatible with: - answerHeisenberg's uncertainty principle According to Popper, the theories of Freud and Adler cannot be considered scientific because they: - answermak...

Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as ske...

Chapter 7 - Postmodernismtruth - correct answer Postmodernism declares that _____ is whatever you define it as. postmodernism - correct answer A skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, that is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth-claims are political power plays. modernism - correct answer A strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as skeptic...

Multiple Choice 1. Events following the death of Aristotle created a situation in which people sought: a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: 2. The main target of skepticism was dogmatism. A dogmatist is anyone who: ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: d conceptual After Aristotle d factual After Aristotle 5. What did a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: answers to questions concerning problems of everyday living the first principles or universals that underlie physical rea...

rhetoric - correct answer messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs and actions. rhetorical acts - correct answer .public audiences, purposeful, more or less obvious social concerns, verbal or nonverbal symbols, reshape the way people think, act, believe, and feel rhetorical artifacts - correct answer ...

Helen - Helen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - Wrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - Wrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same river twice" "All entities move, nothing remains still...you cannot step tw...

Who is the father of debate? - Protagoras Who is the father of eloquence? - Isocrates Who is the father of Sophism? - Gorgias Who wrote the Rhetoric? - Aristotle Who's nickname is "The Great Tully"? - Marcus Cicero Who developed the Socratic Method and what does it mean? - Socrates Q & A leads you to truth What is the Sophist tradition? - Truth is relative it can change, be created... 5 Canons of Rhetoric was developed by who and what are they - ...

Helen - Helen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - Wrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - Wrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same river twice" "All entities move, nothing remains still...you cannot step tw...