Aristotle's "The Rhetoric"

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   School essay   |   12/17/2007   |   .doc   |   2 pages
Document abstract : «Aristotle s The Rhetoric Background of the Author When digging deeply into Aristotle s The Rhetoric it only begs the question of the origins of the author. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Background of the author. Central thesis proposed. Significant concepts, axioms, ideas and elements of the theory. Reasons I selected this theory. The extent it meets a 'good theory' biblically and secularly. References....»

The ethics of Merton: Non-violence and its connection with the sacred

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Presentation   |   07/08/2008   |   .doc   |   9 pages
Document abstract : « this in itself is fascinating since Merton wrote with such all-encompassing rhetoric. Aristotle equated pleasure as the root of all happiness, where as Plato ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.. The duty of a righteous man.. Emptiness makes us the vehicle of a greater understanding. . Religion is bound up in the dogmas which can be used as tools of power and division.. How do you enforce nonviolence?...»

Propaganda is necessary for the functioning and survival of human society. Discuss

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Presentation   |   01/15/2009   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « in the Gorgias attacks rhetoric as a system capable of making the worst appear the better, which corresponds to propaganda(8) and, Aristotle, in rhetorics ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Forms in relationship to an acknowledgment of its sources.. Black propaganda.. Grey propaganda.. White propaganda.. The use of propaganda.. Increase in the need for propaganda.. Mass propaganda techniques as aspects of the social...»

The Problematic Third Speech of the Phaedrus and Ficino's Neoplatonic Reinterpretation

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Term papers   |   04/24/2007   |   .doc   |   7 pages
Document abstract : « of the cicadas” (Plato 25) in the glib nonsense of the empty language of rhetoric. It also mentions the idea of fullness which Aristotle picks up in his ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. The situating of the entire work in a numinous pastoral setting . Describing a focus on the transcendent. When intimacy is established . Love based purely on physical attraction or lust. A blatant sensualism. The description of how a...»

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