Reflect on the balance of winning and wisdom in rhetoric. Your thesis will focus on the degree to which rhetoric concerns winning in contrast to wisdom. Do you agree with Isocrates that winning and wisdom are interconnected? If so, how?
For your sources you may draw on any of the class readings or discussion:
- Gorgias’s Helen
- Dissoi Logoi
- The story of Tisias and Corax
- Plato’s Phaedrus
- Johnson’s “The Cynic”
- Vlastos’s Protagoras dialogue
- Class discussion/lecture
- Online discussion posts
You must include at least 5 in-text citations from the ancient sources, though you may include many more. Strive for an effective balance of citation and analysis. Cite and format your essay following APA conventions. Structure your essay academically with a clear introduction and conclusion (follow the “tootsie roll model”).
If you use your own online discussion posts, don’t cite them. They don’t count as sources, rather think of them as earlier drafts of your own ideas. If you cite the discussion posts of others use the following formats for in-text and full-text:
In-text:
(Steiner, 2010, February 24)
Full-text:
Steiner, T. (2010, February 24). Post 9: Due by 11:59 Sunday 28 February. Message posted to Rhetorical Theory and Application blog, archived at http://rhetapp.blogspot.com/
Length: 3 or more pages.
Format: doublespaced with a title and an APA coversheet.
Due: Friday 12 November.
Points: 30/200 for the term (15%).
The above sculpture has been called the “Melancholy Athena” for many years, but recent interpretations have emphasized her wisdom, re-titling it the “Contemplative Athena.” Athena, after all, was the goddess of wisdom. Here she is depicted contemplating the “turning point” of a race, contemplating how to win.
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