this Sunday in church: which of these persuasive tools did your pastor use? Ethos This is the credibility and authority of the speaker or arguer. For example‚ we might be persuaded by a pastor because he is famous‚ or because she has a Ph.D. Aristotle says that three elements‚ “inspire confidence in the rhetor’s (arguer’s) own character – the three‚ namely‚ that induce us to believe a thing apart from any proof of it: good sense‚ good moral character‚ and goodwill” (Henning). This is the essence
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ethics. According to Thomas Aquinas it is absolutist and depends on the idea that God created everything with a purpose and supreme good is found when that purpose is fulfilled. For Aristotle‚ who heavily influenced Aquinas’ ideas‚ he believed that supreme good for humans is happiness. Thomas Aquinas agreed with Aristotle‚ but saw a human’s supreme purpose to be perfection. The fundamental principles of Natural Law are the primary precepts. The 5 primary precepts are: The preservation of life‚ Reproduction
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Cited: Aquinas‚ St. Thomas. Summa Theologica. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. New York: Benziger Brothers‚ 1952. Aristotle Campbell‚ Lily Bess. Shakespeare ’s Tragic Heroes‚ Slaves of Passion. New York: Barnes & Noble‚ 1961. Dadlez‚ E Gilson. Etienne. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Trans. L. K. Shook. New York: Octagon‚ 1956. Gilsonm‚ Etienne Jenkins
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Saint Augustine ------------------------------------------------- Life Early childhood Augustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras‚ Algeria) in Roman Africa. His father‚ Patricius‚ was a pagan‚ and his mother‚ Monica‚ was Christian. Scholars believe that Augustine’s ancestors included Berbers‚ Latins and Phoenicians. Augustine’s family name‚ Aurelius‚ suggests that his father’s ancestors werefreedmen of the gens Aurelia given full Roman citizenship by the Edict of
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STUDY GUIDE SECOND PHI 101 When: Thursday‚ the 31st Day of October‚ 2013‚ 3:00pm – 4:15pm Where: The same location our class normally meets What to bring: Your ASU Student ID‚ for when you hand in your exam & A Scan-tron form (bubble-in forms) available at the bookstore Do not bring an exam book. TWO number 2 pencils for filling in the scantron form & A blue or black ink pen (optional – pencil ok)‚ for your exam book. If you bring extras for your peers‚ they will be supremely
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and individual responsibilities. In Judeo-Christian law‚ reason and faith are based on the Word of God. They believe in only one God‚ saying he is the creator of all things. Greco-Roman beliefs dealt with more logic. Philosophers like Plato and Aristotle believed in a supreme God but this was because of mythology where the people preferred to create their own gods. As far as law and reason‚ in Greece; philosophy ruled and in Roman the opinion of Caesar ruled. Greeks viewed law as something that
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these ideas were unique to Democritus‚ and which are attributable to Leucippus. Democritus is also the first philosopher we know to realize that what we perceive as the Milky Way is the light of distant stars. Other Philosophers‚ including later Aristotle‚ argued against this. Democritus was among the first to propose that the universe contains many worlds‚ some of them inhabited. He was also a pioneer of math and geometry in particular‚ we only know this because of citations in other writing since
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Greek philosophers called stoics and the Greek philosopher Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas in the 13nth century. The Stoics created the idea of natural law‚ stating that humans have within them a divine spark which helps them to live accordingly to Gods will. Although we as humans have the choice to obey these laws or not we still understand and use our divine spark which is reasoning to decide whether to obey these natural laws. Aristotle continued this idea by saying everything has a purpose and
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consider politics they instantly think of government‚ laws‚ debates and scandal. However‚ the real question of what politics is has been pondered for thousands of years by many profound names‚ one of the many reasons why Aristotle referred to politics as being the ‘master science’ (Aristotle (unknown) Heywood 2013: 1). Some would say politics dates back to its original meaning of being the art of government. Others believe it to be more focused on public life‚ or even a way of creating peace between nations
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and work out what we need to do in order to achieve our particular telos. And so Natural Moral Law is defined as the moral Law of God which has been built into us at creation by God. Aquinas’s ideas of Natural moral Law stemmed from the ideas of Aristotle who believed that every object had a final cause and also believed that when an object’s purpose is fulfilled‚ it achieves supreme good which leads to eudemonia and is translated as eternal happiness. An example could be a chair. Its purpose is to
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