The one concept that I found interesting about this week’s reading
was about how the Sophists came about. Sophists were teachers who were professional
speakers. For many years Greek had a ban
on professional lawyers and so the Greek people had to defend themselves and
come up with their own evidence to win their case. That’s when sophists came up
with the idea to advertise their services to people who needed help in court.
You still had to defend yourself they would just help you write up a persuasive
speech to the courts.
I think this is awesome, in this time you had to use the
resources that you could. So basically you were getting outside help to state
your case. I mean its word against word with whatever evidence you could to win
your case. It makes me wonder how many cases actually won against the court
system when you had to defend yourself without help from someone who knows the
law regulations and the proper way to defend a case.
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