Neel Burton
Contributor at Psychology Today
Psychiatrist, philosopher, author of the Ancient Wisdom & Ataraxia series. Find out more https://t.co/lDPNnrRVos
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Why orators shouldn’t be too slick. In the Rhetoric (4th century BCE), Aristotle identified the three modes of persuasion, or persuasive appeals, that are in: the character of the speaker (ethos), the emotions of the audience (pathos), and the argument itself (logos). Ethos, pathos, and logos are referred to as artistic means of persuasion, and contrasted to non-artistic means, that is, to hard evidence, such as laws, witnesses, and contracts.
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Gorgias hailed from Leontini in Sicily. He studied rhetoric under Corax and Tisias in nearby Syracuse, and was versed in the teachings of Empedocles. In 427, he led an embassy to Athens to forge a defensive alliance against an overbearing Syracuse. Gorgias was something of a showman. He specialized in making unconventional, counterintuitive, or absurd arguments appear the stronger, and spoke in a florid, rhyming style that hypnotized his audiences.
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The two years that he spent on Lesbos were perhaps Aristotle’s happiest. The island’s flora and fauna informed his theory of the form, which in turn informed his entire physics and metaphysics. Aristotle remained at Plato’s Academy for nearly twenty years, only leaving after Plato’s death in 347.
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A biography of the most influential of Western philosophers, known for centuries as The Master of Those Who Know, The First Teacher, or simply, The Teacher. Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in Stageira, on the Chalcidice peninsula of north-eastern Greece.
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The most famous Pope Leo, Leo X, was steeped in Plato. The eminent Byzantine Greek scholar George Gemistos Plethon, who privately rejected Christianity, so admired Plato that he took the name ‘Plethon’. At the 1438-39 Council of Florence, he reintroduced Plato to the West as part of a failed attempt to repair the Great Schism between the Eastern and the Western Church and present a united front to the Ottoman Empire (Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans in 1453).
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God is thought, and his thinking must consist in a thinking upon thinking (noesis noeseos noesis). —Aristotle, Metaphysics λ
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