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| 1. Socrates reportedly denied being a Sophist and refused to teach the art of "making the weaker argument defeat the stronger"—a mark of Sophism. In The Clouds,Aristophanes shows Socrates as a character teaching the attributes Right and Wrong how "to win any case at all." From your reading of the text, was Socrates really a Sophist? What is the true meaning of "sophisticated"? |
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| 2. Rhetoric and the philosophy of persuasion became more important in classical Greece than in earlier cultures. How was this related to politics and government in the polis? |
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