2.  What do the people in your church think about rhetoric?

3.   How is rhetoric abused?  What did Plato think of rhetoric? Are they right?

4. Socrates: “Professor Stilley, shame on you; how can you talk about rhetoric without first defining it?”

5.   What is Rhetoric? [Opening paragraph]  What is the purpose of rhetoric? Is it all about persuasion? How did Aristotle define Rhetoric ?

6.   What are Aristotle’s three proofs furnished through speech?  1.  2.  3. [okay, go ahead and look at page 74] Demonstration

7.  So, what are appropriate means of persuasion?

8.   Do we use syllogisms when we are engaged in discourse? [page 75] What is a syllogism?

9.   “Stilley shops at Dollar Tree.” What is an enthymeme ?

10.   Probability  Signification  Evidence  Example  Induction What?

11.   Deliberative  Forensic  Display [page 80] Three Types of Rhetorical Speech

12.   “…all exhortations and dissuasions are concerned with happiness…” [page 87]  How important was happiness according to Aristotle?  What is Happiness according to Aristotle.  What are the elements of Happiness according to Aristotle? Deliberative Speech

13.   According to Aristotle, deliberation is primarily about means rather than ends. [page 91]  Therefore, if the chief end of man is happiness, the deliberative orator primarily addresses means to happiness, not happiness itself.  Would this principle be the same for Christian preachers/teachers? Happiness as an end, not means

14.   Democracy  Oligarchy  Aristocracy  Monarchy Which is the United States? England? Russia? Four Constitutions [page 102]

15.   Virtue and vice  Nobility and baseness  What is the difference between laudation and encomium? [page 108] Display

16.   According to Aristotle, what role does pleasure play in the mechanics of human behavior? Forensics

17.   “By law I mean on the one hand particular law and on the other general law, special being that defined by each group in relation to itself, this being either unwritten or written down, and the general law being that of nature.” [page 125]  Empedocles : murder  Alcibiades: slavery

18.   Two kinds of crimes; against the community and against an individual  Adultery  Mugger  Draft-dodger  Tax-evasion Community or Individual

19.   Does equity mean that everyone should be treated the same? [page 127] Equity?

20.   When Aristotle speaks of emotion and character as proofs, is he giving ground to the sophists? Emotion

21.   Common sense  Virtue  Goodwill  Friendship/enmity  Fear/confidence  Shame  Gratitude  Pity  Indignation  Envy  Jealousy What role should they play?