| Gorgias: ca. 480 - 380 BC. Gorgias was a famous speaker and teacher. He was probably the first to suggest the thesis that a desired effect in the listener can be achieved by skillfully addressing the affects, regardless of the content of the speech. (See Der kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |
