Presocratic Morsels
The Sage's Truth
Phantasms and Mirages
Rhetoric or Dialectic?
The Desert of the Real
100
This thinker claimed that "contradiction is impossible."
Who is Protagoras?
100
In the dialogue "Sophist," Socrates is ultimately after the definition of the Sophist. But first, he and the Visitor pursue the definition of the _____.
What is an angler?
100
Deleuze claims that to "reverse" Platonism is also to _______ Platonism.
What is "to reserve"?
100
Plato's dialectical method is defined as _______.
Division according to kind.
100
Baudrillard's third-order simulation is also known as ________.
What is hyperreality?
200
Protagoras claimed that, "Concerning _____ I am unable to know either that they are or that they are not. For many are the things that hinder knowledge: the obscurity of the matter and the shortness of human life."
What are "the gods"?
200
The Unparticipated, the Participated, and the Participant form what?
What is the Neoplatonic Triad.
200
In "Sophist," Deleuze claims Plato's project of defining the being of non-being is essentially _______.
What is ironic/paradoxical?
200
Gorgias admitted that Rhetoric was concerned more with ______ and less with ends.
What are means?
200
Baudrillard argues in which essay that, "[...] artificial memory will be the re-staging of extermination."
What is "Holocaust"?
300
This thinker claimed that "Man is the measure of all things. Of the things that they are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not."
Who is Protagoras?
300
In the dialogue "Protagoras," Socrates is concerned that Hippocrates would, "[...] entrust the care of your_____ to a man who is, in your own words, a Sophist?"
What is a soul?
300
According to Deleuze, this contemporary phenomenon illustrates the nature of the simulacrum.
What is pop art?
300
Rhetoric was originally conceived as the development of argument from ________, rather than argument from fact.
What is probability?
300
In "Value's Last Tango," Baudrillard refers to what as a "benefit alibi, a simulacrum of work exchanged"?
What is a diploma?
400
This thinker asked, "How can anyone suppose that laws are a serious matter or believe in them, since it often happens that the very people who make them repeal them and substitute and pass others in their place?"
Who is Hippias?
400
In the dialogue "Protagoras," Socrates first alleges that _____ cannot be taught. He then later appears to change his mind.
What is Virtue?
400
"By rising to the surface," Deleuze writes, "the simulacrum makes the _______ and the copy fall [...]"
What is the model?
400
Affirmative conclusions in Dialectic are first contingent upon ______.
What is refutation?
400
In "Apocalypse Now" Baudrillard writes, "One has understood nothing, neither about the war nor about cinema, if one has not grasped this lack of distinction that is no longer and ideological or a moral one, one of good and evil, but one of the reversibility of both ______ and destruction."
What is production?
500
This Sophist chastised Protagoras for attempting to answer the Platonic question, "What is Virtue?"
Who is Gorgias?
500
In the dialogue "Protagoras," Virtue is ultimately defined as _____.
What is The Art of Measurement?
500
Deleuze suggests that Plato inaugurates a "productive destruction" of his own work in what dialogue?
What is "Sophist"?
500
Guthrie suggests that Rhetoric may be the art par excellence of which form of government?
What is democracy?
500
Brecht's aphorism: "Where nothing is in its place, lies disorder, where in the desired place there is nothing, lies order" refers to the replacement of value with _______.
What is empty form (i.e. grades, diplomas, etc.)
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