Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... Finally this leads us to questions of the end of poetry itself, and its justification for existence, that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both Plato and Aristotle, the foremost philosophers of their time, arrived at widely different answers to the questions above. This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotl...

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., philosophers like Plato and Aristotle studied the art of rhetoric, and realized its true linguistic power. Yet instead of using this power for their own gain, Plato and Aristotle wrote about and discussed the virtuous use of rhetoric. ... Aristotle agrees with Plato's views as he restates "it is quite wrong to persuade men to evil," or even untruth (69). ... Even though some people used rhetoric for ill during Plato and Aristotle's time, these people were looked down upon unfavorably. ... Rhetoric has an extremely powerful potential in the field of persuasion that both ...

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Disagreements between public policy, morality and individual behavior on this issue existed even at the time of Plato and Aristotle. ... By the 1970s, abortion had been legalized in most European countries and Japan; in the United States, under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe vs. ... In Roe vs. ...

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