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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