COMM 301 Final Exam TAMU
Pleasure - CORRECT ANSWER-fulfilling a physical lack by consuming or sensing
something (goes up & down)
Power - CORRECT ANSWER-not just the ability to punish or get pleasure; the ability to
attain what is genuinely good for you or the state
Virtue - CORRECT ANSWER-constant rule (following a straight line), a habitual
character that I possess that attaches to some sort of rule
Nomos - CORRECT ANSWER-convention - a rule, written law made up by human
invention, ethics
Physis - CORRECT ANSWER-natural law - always and forever a law, instinct
Rhetoric - CORRECT ANSWER-speaking in public to a mass about what is right or
what is wrong, persuading you to do something that I want (one way)
Dialect - CORRECT ANSWER-one on one, back and forth in conversation, interrogating
a proposition (two ways)
Sophistry - CORRECT ANSWER-an artificial version of philosophy, more popular things
meant to flatter me, not reliable
Philosophy - CORRECT ANSWER-the art of coming up with rules of how to live rightly,
a code by which I figure out how is best for me to act
Law - CORRECT ANSWER-codes instituted by the state to train and regulate and
cultivate citizens
Ethos - CORRECT ANSWER-shows character & credibility
Pathos - CORRECT ANSWER-do or think a certain way because of what I am
describing, a narrative description, intended to arouse a reaction
Logos - CORRECT ANSWER-an argument by a reason that comes to a conclusion
("because of this...")
Deliberative - CORRECT ANSWER-"what do we do"
Forensic - CORRECT ANSWER-"what happened, was that the right thing"
