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In a dialogue, a practitioner of this activity defends its ability to teach arete, or virtue. For 10 points each:
[10m] What activity was practiced by sophists? Cicero advised practitioners of this activity to use memory palaces.
ANSWER: rhetoric [or oratory or word forms; accept De Oratore; prompt on public speaking]
[10e] This author of the dialogue The Sophist criticized the sophists for using rhetoric for their own benefit. Nevertheless, this thinker argued that philosopher-kings should tell a “noble lie” in his dialogue Republic.
ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]
[10h] Plato also wrote dialogues titled for Gorgias and this other sophist, who defended relativism with the statement “man is the measure of all things.”
ANSWER: Protagoras
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Binghamton BESF010010E
Binghamton CCornell C1010020ME
Cornell ABinghamton A1010020ME
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UK (South)UKY810.00100%0%0%
Northern CaliforniaUSY120.00100%100%0%
Southern CaliforniaUSY711.43100%14%0%
Eastern Canada (1)USY514.00100%20%20%
Eastern Canada (2)USY910.00100%0%0%
FloridaUSY110.00100%0%0%
Great LakesUSY1215.00100%42%8%
Lower Mid-AtlanticUSY913.33100%33%0%
Upper Mid-AtlanticUSY1211.67100%17%0%
MidwestUSY913.33100%22%11%
NorthUSY120.00100%100%0%
NortheastUSY1214.17100%33%8%
PacificUSY913.3389%33%11%
SoutheastUSY1313.85100%31%8%
Upstate NYUSY516.00100%60%0%