Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively for the purpose of persuasion. Rhetoric is an important part of society and is often used in elections and speeches to essentially win over the crowd. In the famous play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare A character by the name of Marc Antony uses ethos, indirect suggestion and socratic irony to manipulate a crowd to avenge the death of Caesar. Antony first begins by calling the listeners friends, romans and countrymen to establish trust with
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In “Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle distinguishes the vicious man, who is unrepentant of his actions (which are contrary to the good, as it is performed by a virtuous person), from the incontinent man, who regrets his actions (which regularly miss what they know to be good). Aristotle proposes the vicious man does not know he is vicious (otherwise he would regret failing to act toward the good), but the incontinent man knows he is incontinent. This is why they possess such relationships to repentance
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Blending philosophy with fiction, A Confession by William F. Aicher is a novel about free will, choices and consequences. In A Confession an unnamed main character is speaking directly to you, the reader, as he relates different stories from his past and asks you to judge him. These situations are often relatable enough - a marriage gone wrong and facing therapy and alcohol counseling after a violent outburst, for example - and peppered with philosophical questions throughout. The main character
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Should Laws be Broken? Breaking the law causes you to have some sort of consequences, but some laws must be broken in order to help other innocent people. You shouldn't be punished for breaking an unjust law that is unfair to the society. If people are complaining about a law that is unjust to the state then the person that enforced it should end it for the good of the people. three reasons why you should break a law is if a law is harmful to you or other innocent people and if breaking
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In order for justice and truth to be sustained Socrates believes that society to could benefit from a unifying belief system weather a societies belief system is true or false is irrelevant; Socrates justifies this in the case in the “Myth of the Metals” also known as “The Noble Lie” in order to render citizens happy about their position within the social order, be they a warrior, labour or ruler and to captivate a sense of nationalism, patriotism and brotherhood among the populous, Socrates constructs
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Socrates argues during his interrogation If he is such a bad influence on the youth of Athens, what is it that has a good influence? Meletus replies that the men of the jury, Councilors, and members of the assembly as good influences. Per this statement everyone except for Socrates is a good influence on the youth. Socrates then compares this to that of a horse trainer, they are specialized in the training of horses. They have positive influence on horses, where most people uneducated in the training
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Natural Law is the law that has been or should have been embedded into one’s mind and body. However the world, as of today, has drifted away from those “theories”. But, think of a world that would follow these rules, it’s like an unattainable utopia. However its feels as if we grasped it once before. The law to kill shouldn’t have to be implicated onto the human law, but the world has lost its way from the past and now it’s chaotic. To me the natural law has been overrun but the human law which makes
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Through his early years Alexander was educated by Aristotle in literature, art, and philosophy. At the forefront of Alexander’s studies was the book Iliad . This literature, among others, contributed to the formation of Alexander’s morals and more importantly, which figures he modeled himself after. In Aristotle’s Hymn to Excellence he speaks of Alexander’s ancestors: Heracles, Achilles, and Aias –who became Alexander’s heroic models . This was good for Alexander because it allowed him to relate
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and Glaucon, who was Socrates’ student (Pearcy). Plato designed “Allegory of the Cave” as a theory to concentrate on human perception (Trumpeter). Plato refers to knowledge being acquired by the senses as an opinion, but that real knowledge is attained by philosophical reasoning. Plato describes the difference between people who can not differentiate between sensory knowledge to reach the truth and people that actually see the truth. In order for Plato to explain his theory of “Allegory of the Cave”
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For the renowned philosopher, Aristotle, his final moments of life were a chance to examine the human condition to an even greater extent; to risk his own contentment in the pursuit of understanding and philosophy. In his landmark work, “Phaedo,” Plato depicts a dialogue between Socrates and the philosophers Cebes and Simmias. Within this lengthy philosophical discourse, Socrates makes several arguments in to prove the immortality of the soul. In his first argument, often referred to as the “Cyclical
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