All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ... Such portrayals provide justification for men to commit such acts themselves, and therefore these misrepresentations of gods and heroes are harmful to a general populace. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of ...

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He asserted in this work that Aristotle boosted the "importance" of knowledge, by describing only what goodness was, and not how men could improve themselves (Humanism: Italy 1). ... During the political turmoil within the city, the study of classical texts and the values learned from them were to be fused with the republican beliefs of the time (Humanism 1). The concepts of humanism were to be used to support the state. ... "The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513, was a great representation of the new ideas that surfaced within literature during the Renaissance. ... By "putting ...

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With an object as ordinary as a swinging pocket watch, some individuals have the power to gain control of another person's mind by lulling them into a meditative state. ... Aristotle especially emphasizes this when the offense is involved in the affairs of others. ... Aristotle agrees with Plato's views as he restates "it is quite wrong to persuade men to evil," or even untruth (69). ... Rhetoric has an extremely powerful potential in the field of persuasion that both Plato and Aristotle recognized. ... As Michel Foucault explains, "[words have become] linguistic cons...

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