The art of manipulation and persuasion is truly effective when one is incompetent to the fact that they alone are not thinking for themselves. Since the beginning of time, humankind has wanted to have control. In some instances they will strive for power in ways that make them oblivious to right and wrong. Occasionally, they will go against what they are told to do and instead to what they want to do. In the play Julius Caesar the power of persuasion and manipulation of language is clear when two men, Brutus and Mark Antony, spiel to the people of their country, each attempting to gain the support of the populace over the death of Caesar. Even though Brutus establishes ethos throughout his speech, Mark Antony’s uses it to his advantage…
Aristotle was a Greece philosopher lived from 384BC to 322BC. He wrote and taught many subjects in his career. One of his incredible writings included Rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art used to persuade or motivate an audience. Persuasion is an art used as a tool to change people’s belief, behavior, or even there attitude towards certain things. The Greece philosophers believed that to be truly effective to the audience you had to use a motivational way. The three ways Aristotle covered in Rhetoric subject was Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.…
Friedrich Nietzsche is a German Philosopher, who studied and written several critical texts. The type of texts he wrote were along the lines of philosophy, religion, contemporary culture, and science. Nietzsche is known for a lot of his work, but master-slave morality is highly valued. Master-slave morality was the first subject in Nietzsche’s book, On the Genealogy of Morality. In this book Nietzsche defines the difference between Slave morality and Master morality. When Nietzsche compares between the two types of morality he distinguish strength versus weakness, the difference is primarily one of power and also love independence. The master knows he has power and abilities to aspire to excellence, also he…
If a writer wanted to appeal to the audience, what would he have to do? He is going to have to utilize some rhetorical devices of course! Rhetorical devices are key in writing persuasion papers and just any paper that is meant to be read to an audience. In the Inauguration Speech of 1961 given by President John F. Kennedy, he was able to really connect with his audience that day by using lots of different rhetorical devices. By using chiasmus, anaphoras, and metaphors, JFK was able to effectively reach and persuade people to have faith in him despite his age and religion.…
For the vast majority morals are sets of guidelines that we should comply, they let us know what is correct or off-base. Moral philosophers need to find how these guidelines are legitimized, and at the consistent outcomes of moral or moral convictions. The time of enlightenment saw a questioning of religious and customary qualities. Philosophers expected to construct moral framework in light of reasonable grounds. Kant's moral framework depends on levelheadedness. It endeavors to indicate how any objective being would consent to widespread moral laws. Its impact has been colossal and current philosophers still utilize Kant's thoughts as a beginning stage for exchanges on morality. The other incredible moral arrangement of the post-enlightenment time is…
Thank you for your valuable posting in this forum. It is very interesting to see somebody's else experience through a reflective mirror. I agree with your opinion that through persuasive behaviours and communication the person wishes to change how others think, reinforce what they think, or establish attitudes and opinions. During the whole process we are not trying to limit the audience's ability to choose, we do not force the audience to accept the message, and we do not influence their opinions by deceit (Wells & Spinks 1996).…
One more prominent figure in the classical history of rhetoric is Plato (428-347 B.C). Plato believed that the purpose of philosophy was to discover truth that should be independent of any special calculation of interest; he was suspicious of rhetoric because he thought it lacked any concern with a truth that was separate from the speaker’s interest. An opposition therefore developed in the classical period between rhetoric and dialectic (1), dialectic gave equal weight to both sides of an argument, while rhetoric was concerned with persuasion from a particular perspective rather than presenting a balanced point of view. For Plato, rhetoric was deceptive, because it only showed a perspective that fitted with the speaker’s point of view.…
Nietzsche is inherently polemic. This is a characterization that Nietzsche has applied to himself; the book that both informs, and is informed by every other book Nietzsche has written on the subject of revaluation of existing values, On the Genealogy of Morality, is subtitled simply A Polemic. It is clear that in this context, Nietzsche’s polemic is derived from the extent to which Nietzsche’s argument will invariably conflict with the existing system of valuation, to which the book is meant to serve as an arrow. However, absent is any indication that there exists an internal polemic derived from any form of logical incompleteness. The same may not be said for Thus Spoke Zarathustra, an introduction to which, written by one of its earliest modern translators, RJ Hollingdale, reads: “The book’s worst fault is excess.” Its excesses here, I will argue, derive from Nietzsche’s attempt at metaphysics, which constitutes Nietzsche’s true polemic, inasmuch as it in turn makes Zarathustra vulnerable to logical incompleteness.…
When we speak to others, we use the same fact and different slanted cause very different impression. Then, slanting used by charged words, this means our judgment based on…
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion,” (Aristotle, 8). Aristotle continues by saying a person should be able to, “(1) reason logically, (2) understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) understand the emotions that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited,” (Aristotle, 9). This describes logos, pathos, and ethos, which are the defining principles of a true…
In “Beyond Good and Evil”, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that “life is will to power” (p.68). In this paper, I will argue for this argument because I believe that people are controlled by elements of power exist in every aspect of life.…
xv. Audiences may selectively perceive and respond to the message in still other ways that result in not being persuaded. By denial, dismissal, belittling the source, compartmentalization.…
Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay in On the Genealogy of Morals explores the origins and meaning to different moral concepts. Nietzsche does not believe that moral values are given; rather they emerge under certain conditions, promoting the survival and growth of a particular group of people. The way Nietzsche describes morality as “the slave revolt in morality began with resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction, that of deeds, and compensate themselves with an imaginary revenge” (Nietzche I 36). Therefore, Nietzche believes that ressentiment is the origin of slave morality, which is what the prominent morality of today is. With this belief that morality is just the…
Every single one of us is a perpetrator of deception whether knowingly or unknowingly. As the common saying goes “everyone has a price.” Making it clear that if pushed far enough even the righteous will choose unsavory paths to get where they want to go. Deception is the art of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true. “Truth” is a matter of perception as discussed previously in class. Since there is no one truth then the deception itself may be viewed as a truth to an unsuspecting person and because the person truly believes what he has been told it becomes the truth. It is true all that we know and are exposed to is propaganda. Propaganda is the first and most lethal weapon in mass deception. It can brainwash an entire generation. For example, the children who studied in Germany during Hitler’s rule would fundamentally have a stigma against Jews. Not because they are cruel or have horrible characters or are inhumane but only because they were trained and educated to do so. Education in the wrong hands can be disastrous. So, who is to say that what our education system is teaching us is not teaching us similar things? Our own education system is not viewed as such because every country is doing the same. “History is written by the winners.” So, is knowing the truth and passing on the half-truth deception? Of course, it is. Just because you…
Language is a persuasive tool but can also be misleading and confusing. Barriers such as distorting euphemisms, acronyms, lingo, illogicalities, and clichés can distort the meaning of words or phrases (Kirby et al, 1999, pg. 92). The most powerful ability of language is to understand and effectively communicate. Being able to clearly communicate ideas to each other allows empowerment and the ability to be open to new thoughts and opinions. The ability to reproduce this information to another in a certain manner can lead to persuasion. The power of persuasion allows individuals to influence and control people (Dictionary.com, 2005). This tactic of persuasion can also be referred to as propaganda, which increases power by spreading information for the purpose of promoting some cause (Dictionary.com, 2005). The propagandist informs, usually through public speaking or mass media, hoping to persuade the audience to embrace their point of view. With the support of the audience, the speaker gains power.…