Part one of term paper
The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent. Socrates employed the same logical trick, developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, h ...

Part two of term paper
... reference to the truth, by simply taking it for granted if words are no more than "image" of things and the meaning of speech only comes from the fact that relations between words properly match the relation between the things they are images of. The answer to this question is indeed the key to answering and understanding the relationship between persuasion, democracy and rhetoric. In defining these three words, a connection can found which binds them together in a way that gives a separate mea ...