1. INTRODUCTION TO DEBATE
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INTRODUCTION TO DEBATE
1.1 What is Debate?
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1.1 WHAT IS DEBATE?
GOALS
Define debate.
List the people who were influential in the debate process.
Understand the significance of presidential debates.
Chapter 1

3. TERMS
debate
informal debate
formal debate

5. Debate in Your Life Debate Persuasion
Oral confrontations between two individuals, teams, or groups to argue reasons for and against a set position
Persuasion
Appeals to emotional responses

6. Debating requires you to listen to what the other person has to say.
Informal debate
An exchange of ideas between two or more people that requires little preparation and few rules
Formal debate
A scheduled event that takes place in a specified setting
Debating requires you to listen to what the other person has to say.

7. Early Influences on Debate
Rhetoric
The art of persuading an audience
Isocrates ( B.C.)
Socrates ( B.C.)
Demosthenes ( B.C.)
Cicero ( B.C.)

8. Demosthenes ( B.C.)

9. Philip II of Macedonia

10. King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.
Member of the Argead dynasty of Macedonian kings
3rd son of King Amyntas III of Macedon
Father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.
Reformation of the Ancient Macedonian army
Defeated Athens
Greek states known as the League of Corinth elected hegemon and commander-in-chief of Greece for a planned invasion of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia.
Assassination by a royal bodyguard, Pausanias of Orestis
Succession of his son Alexander
Invaded the Achaemenid Empire in his father's stead.

11. Demosthene’s Speech Against Philip II of Macedonia
[1] If the question before us were a new one, men of Athens, I should have waited until most of the regular speakers had delivered their opinions, and if satisfied with any of their proposals, I should have remained silent, but if not satisfied, I should then have tried to express my own views. Since, however, it is our fortune to be still debating a point on which they have often spoken before, I can safely claim your indulgence if I am the first to rise and address you. For if in the past their advice had been sound, there would be no need for deliberation today.

12. Demosthene’s Speech Against Philip II of Macedonia
[2] Now in the first place, Athenians, there is no need to despair of our present position, however hopeless it may seem. For that which is worst in the days that are past and gone is just what affords the best assurance for the future. And what is that? It is that your affairs are in this evil plight just because you, men of Athens, utterly fail to do your duty; since surely, were you so placed in spite of every effort on your part, it would be hopeless to look for improvement.

13. Winston Churchill Speech

14. Debate Today
Debates are popular during presidential campaigns.
The first nationally televised debate was watched by 77 million Americans.
Millions watched the 2008 debates.