They were known for their persuasive and entertaining rhetoric.
What are Sophists?
100
He is known for writing "Republic" and for studying with Socrates.
What is Plato?
100
This philosophy states that we can only be good (ethical) through the virtues of wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance and we can only know these things by rational discourse. Oh, and the thinker denied "convention" for ethical standards.
What is Socratic ethics?
100
This action is essential in communication and thus in ethics.
What is practice?
100
This ethical theory is focused on the quality of a person's character and on how a person treats others.
What is virtue ethics?
200
It is the social norms of a given community.
What is nomos?
200
Known for writing "Eudemian Ethics" and "Nichomachean Ethics," he extended Plato's philosophies to state that human good must be understood through intimate knowledge of life and insight into human nature.
What is Aristotle?
200
This philosophy teaches that the physical world is a unitary living being animated and organized by reason (logos) or "divine breath" (pneuma). Followers believe they are part of the divine intelligence.
What is Stoicism?
200
This category of communication, established by Kenneth Burke, is a form of action that uses symbols to promote cooperation by encouraging communicators to identify with one another.
What is rhetorical communication?
200
This document, adopted by the United National General Assembly in 1948, outlines human rights that involve communication.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
300
It is the word for Protagoras' human virtue.
What is arete?
300
Known through the dialogues of Plato, he presented the idea that "man is the measure of all things."
What is Protagoras?
300
This philosophy emphasizes pleasure but is simple: mental pleasure is desirable, bodily pleasure is fleeting but acceptable, and pain is to be avoided unless it brings long-term pleasure.
What is Epicureanism?
300
In this interaction, communicators do not need to meet or even know of one another's existence to engage in open-ended dialogue.
What is Bakhtinian dialogue?
300
This theory guides us in making decisions about how to act based on the amount of good our action creates for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
400
It is Socrates' method of mutual inquiry into truth, examining opinions of what is good and bad for humans and determining how one should live life.
What is elenchus?
400
Basing his philosophy on pleasure by moderation, he created the term "ataraxia" for "the goal that...makes for a completely happy life...[free] of bodily pain...mental upset."
What is Democritus?
400
This philosophy, grounded in thought from one of Alexander the Great's leaders, emphasizes that happiness depends on how we connect with nature, a system we can know. The founding philosopher, however, committed to nothing.
What is Pyrrhonism?
400
This term relates to awareness of your communication actions and how you make choices: you are aware of that which is around you and how it affects you.
What is mindfulness?
400
This principle states that human decision-making always has a point of view that comes from our position in our relationships, a view that shapes what we accept as knowledge and influence and how we exercise power.
What is decentered self?
500
It's the Greek word for well-ordered structure.
What is kosmos?
500
Considered the "father of Athenian moral tradition," he wrote poetry and also focused on balance: "May the gods give me prosperity and good fame in the eyes of all men.... I want to have wealth, but not to acquire it unjustly; for punishment [dike] always comes later."
What is Solon?
500
This philosophy states that nothing can be known—that knowledge of any good is impossible without prior knowledge of goodness but even that knowledge is not absolute.
What is Platonic theory?
500
This term labels an argument that is based either on personal self-interest or upon poorly examined social convention.
What is rationalization?
500
Buber named this type of relationship, linked to a philosophy that focuses on dialogue as communication and requires that people recognize and affirm the wholeness of each other as human beings.