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Title: Isocrates: The Great Teacher


1
Isocrates The Great Teacher
  • Advanced Rhetorical Writing
  • Matt Barton

2
The Great Teacher Isocrates
  • Isocrates opens first school of rhetoric in in
    Athens, 393 BCE
  • Developed periodic sentence
  • Emphasized praxis
  • Education improves natural talents and should
    serve the state
  • Talent, Experience, Training crucial for
    rhetorical and philosophical success
  • Education should form good citizens, not
    navel-gazers

3
Periodic Sentences
  • Loose vs. Periodic Sentences
  • Loose Style Strung together like beads
    (straight)
  • Periodic Style Turned or Guided by an End
    (circular)
  • Bill went to the store and bought some milk and
    decided to get some cheese he came home and saw
    that the cat had gotten out he looked for it and
    couldn't find it his TV suddenly went blank."
  • After his trip to the store, where he bought
    milk and (on a sudden whim) cheese, Bill's
    arrival at home was marred, first by his cat, who
    had gotten away and couldn't be found, then by
    his TV, which suddenly went blank.

4
Isocrates views on rhetoric
  • Requirements for Rhetorical Success
  • Natural Ability
  • Practice Making Speeches
  • General Principles
  • Kairos is all important.
  • An orator striving for fame will emulate moral
    behavior thus virtue will become a habit. (ethos)

5
Against the Sophists
  • Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of
    fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and
    originality of treatment.
  • Formal training in rhetoric can help
  • talented orators further refine their skills
  • Untalented orators get by.
  • Rhetoric cant make you wise or good by itself,
    but it can help you help yourself.
  • Evil deeds dont go unpunished forever.

6
Oratory and Civilization
  • Because we have the power to persuade each other
    and to make clear to each other whatever we
    desire, not only have we escaped the life of wild
    beasts, but we have come together and founded
    cities and made laws and invented arts
  • There is no institution devised by man which the
    power of speech has not helped us to establish.

7
Oratory and Understanding
  • The power to speak well is taken as the surest
    index of a sound understanding, and discourse
    which is true and lawful and just is the outward
    image of a good and faithful soul.
  • The same arguments we use to persuade others (the
    eloquent), we also use to deliberate in our own
    thoughts (the sage).

8
Oratory and Morality
  • Orators will constantly appraise illustrious and
    edifying examples which will influence him not
    only in the preparation of discourse but all the
    actions in his life.
  • The man who wishes to persuade people will apply
    himself above all to establish a most honorable
    name among his fellow-citizens.

9
Other thoughts from Antidosis
  • Some academic subjects seem unrelated to real
    life, but learning these subjects is still
    useful.
  • They teach us how to apply our minds to
    difficult problems and think with subtlety and
    exactness we learn how to focus.
  • Philosophy is useful if it helps us make
    intelligent decisions when were in uncertain
    situations.
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