With the recent popularization of feminism, many of the social critiques in modern music discuss inequalities between men and women, in hopes of educating the public. ... Aristotle argues that illicit generalizations, or "maxims that state as a universal truth what is not always true," can arouse anger in the audience (Aristotle in Cooper 154). ... He argues that in both enthymemes and stereotypes, "hearers are expected to finish processing the information and concept within themselves" (Boss 24). ... Aristotle states that although there are different kinds of slight, in al...

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Widely held beliefs state that it began as a ritual, and through the performers' repetition of a certain event in front of an audience, the ritual became a performance and theatre was born. ... Sophocles must present Antigone as part of a group of three tragedies and one satyr play, and if deemed acceptable by the Archon, the Archon in turn will provide him with a chorus of fifteen men, a lead actor, and a Choregus. ... By further examining the character of Antigone, one can conclude that she in fact fits the pattern of a tragic heroine as outlined by Aristotle. Aristotle believes that...

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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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In Aristotle's book, Poetics, the philosopher defines a tragic hero as someone of high status, flawed, afflicted with hamartia (tragic flaw) and hubris (arrogance), is punished severely, and in the end gains wisdom. ... According to Aristotle, the tragedy that affects the classical tragic hero is the result of his human flaws as opposed to the interference of an exterior force. ... Presumably, there are not many men who have found themselves in the position of being heir to a throne with a fiancée sentenced to death by their father. ... Primarily, I take issue with his belief tha...

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Aristotle's Prime Mover appears radically different from the God of most Christians. ... By labelling this uncaused, necessary being on which all depends as "that which all men speak of as God", Aquinas does no argue for the claim and given that Aquinas" God is metaphysically simple, having no body or parts. ... Is it any more probable that each state of the universe should be explainable by a previous state going on into infinity, than the universe depending on an uncaused God. The universe and time cease to exist until the moment of the "Big Bang" which makes it less plausible that eac...

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Since to Paine, God contains no evil within him. ... It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. ... In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in the books supposedly written by Prophets is actually poetry. It meets all of the requirements, including being fictitious, extravagant and not fitting within any other category of form than poetry. ... He cites the example t...

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Both men are always searching for answers and looking around. ... A still unresolved question and debate arising from this state of affairs is: should we continue in our knowledge endeavors to follow the old, analytic tradition of Western science, or does it serve mankind (and especially intellectuals as creators of new ideas and understandings) better to become "contextualizers", "story-tellers", "faith healers" or "conversationists"? ... After notable minds of the Ancient World such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, by modernist standards, original thinking ceased for many centuries. ...

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