Aristotle's Anagnorisis

     With the possible exception of Plato, Aristotle is the most influential philosopher in the history of logical thought. Logic into this century was basically Aristotelian logic. Aristotle dominated the study of the natural sciences until modern times. Aristotle, in some aspect, was the founder of biology; Charles Darwin considered him as the most important contributor to the subject. Aristotle’s Poetic, the first work of literary notice, had a string influence on the theory and practice of modern drama. Aristotle’s great influence is due to the fact that he seemed to offer a system, which although lacked in certain respects, was as a whole matchless in its extent.

I must admit, I am enchanted by Aristotle's proofs ethos, pathos, and logos. While I do agree with the assigned text in that a balnce of the modes of persuasion creates the strongest argument, I am subsceptable to a well structured argument rooted an any of three proofs. Dispite my susceptability to Aristotle's proofs, I find Burke's theory on identification less compelling. Burke's rhetoric reminds me of the Psychologist's fallacy, a logical fallacy in which the speaker "mirrors", presents themselves as equals, or claim to be "just like you" in order to gain the audience's trust (Parish, 2011). Personally, I feel I have a tendancy to see through this approach, which ultimately leads to distrust of the speaker.

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play has the perfect Aristotelian tragic plot consisting of peripateia, anagnorisis and catastrophe; it has the perfect tragic character that suffers from happiness to misery due to his hamartia (tragic flaw) and the play evokes pity and fear that produces the tragic effect, catharsis (a purging of emotion).

Weekly Writing Assignment Four Abigail Fisher The argument that Aristotle lays out in Book II, Section 5 established what sort of thing virtue is. The argument is as follows: P1. The three kinds of things found in the soul are passions, faculties, and states of character.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Ethics) is regarded as one of the, if not the greatest work concerning ethics in history. The word ethics derives from the Greek word ethos, which translates more properly as “character”, and it would seem that Aristotle’s concern in The Ethics, is what constitutes good character, and that goodness is of practical use; that merely knowing how to be a way is only half of what’s necessary, and that the known must be practiced. A related treatise, The Politics, is often regarded as the sequel to The Ethics, in part because Aristotle closes The Ethics by saying that his ethical inquiry has arranged the foundation for an inquiry into political questions. (Reeve. Page 194.) As such, Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as two separate but related fields, giving way to the idea that ethics surveys the good of the individual, while politics examines the good of the city-state (polis), but also that the good of the individual is secondary to the good of the city-state.

With every introduction to a play of tragedy comes the eventual downfall of the leading protagonist. In Shakespeare's play of Hamlet, Prince Hamlet is faced with the devastating death of his father, King Hamlet. With this immense loss, the young prince is faced with a vast array of destructive emotions, one being the single most tragic flaw that inevitably sends him on a one-way trip to further heartache and tribulation. Hamlet, faced with innumerable amounts of pain, has the tragic, and unfortunate, flaw of being unable to act when necessary. This inability to act is displayed when he is unable to commit suicide, unable to kill his uncle, and unable to be straightforward with both his uncle and mother.

The definition of anagnorisis states it contains a moment where the tragic hero recognizes and realizes the true identities of himself or other characters. For example, when his servant notifies that Cassius has commits suicide with the sword that used to kill Caesar, Brutus states “The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me. Two several times by night. At Sardis once, And this last night here in Philippi fields. I know my hour is come.” (V.scene 5. 22-25). The statement conveys the realization of Brutus on the conspirators and the entire plan. Perceiving that he should be blame for his own actions, Brutus commits suicide by running into a sword. As the sword stabs him, he speaks “Caesar, now be still.I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.”(V.scene 5. 56-57). The quote conveys that he realizes the enormity of his actions and he regrets for killing Caesar with ridiculous reasons. The evidence support the idea that Brutus matches to the quality of a tragic hero the

Aristotle begins to question what is good? The good is explained to differ in different activities and arts, but shares a common ground because it appears to be for the sake of how things are done; a means to an end. Aristotle uses the example of medicine; its mean is to end in health. However, there are many different ends and humans chose some of them, as a means to something else, therefore not all ends are final ones. That which is chosen never as a mean to something else proves to be more final than that which is chosen for itself and something else. Therefore, Aristotle justifies that the mean that is always chosen for itself and not for means of something else is called the final. Aristotle uses this definition and applies it to happiness, since happiness is always chosen as an end in itself and never for the sake of something else. The thought of honor, pleasure and virtue being chosen as an end for itself may apply but can be assumed they lead to happiness as a means to an end.

trange; that was the only word to describe it. Aristotle’s eyes widened as he quickly leaped off his bike, making his way towards the abnormality. The peculiar flower caught his interest; he had never seen anything like it. He wandered off into this field not too far from his house, on a quest for flowers. However, this was not what he expected. This flower was such a beauty, it did not belong on Earth. Excitement flickered in his eyes. Aristotle was still in the early stages of becoming a botanist, but he knew almost too much about plants. A gleeful laugh escaped his lips, and he wasted no time in uprooting the flower from its spot. His hands shook with delight as he placed the flower in the basket of his bike, that previously occupied the ground. His legs burned when he raced home, his smile shined brightly in the afternoon sunlight.

The good life for Aristotle means that humans can obtain happiness only if they are citizens within a self-sufficient city because the city, a political entity, aims at and is most successful at providing the good life for its citizens (1252b27). Aristotle supports this claim with two arguments. The first argument asserts that politics is a part of human nature and that humans posses the capacity to access their greatest potential. This means exercising their capacities to the fullest degree and becoming citizens within a polis so they can live the good life (1253a2). The second argument states that everything is defined by its function (1253a18) and that the whole (the polis) is prior to its parts (the citizens) meaning that humans need the city in order to properly function as citizens and to attain the good life. Therefore politics is an elemental part of the good life because the nature and function

Number Two is the number of Plurality. Duality (or divisional plurality). Dualism, from the Latin word duo, which means "two" and it denotes a condition or a state of two parts. With Unity there is one word, one original, and one only essence, but it severs itself into two properties; two actions which are a kind of binary opposition where two related terms or concepts, which form a pair, are in opposition of their meaning toward one another. Therefore, we see in Nature, two opposites strictly defined as a contrasting pair, one against the other, such as: joy and sorrow, light and darkness, day and night, male and female, mortal and immortal, life and death, spirit and flesh. Both, as contasting elements, together producing all things. Thus from the odd, proceed both odd and even, making two distinct and

In Book I of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that the ultimate human goal or end is happiness. Aristotle then describes steps required for humans to obtain the ultimate happiness. He also states that activity is an important requirement of happiness. A virtuous person takes pleasure in doing virtuous things. He then goes on to say that living a life of virtue is something pleasurable in itself. The role of virtue to Aristotle is an important one, with out it, it seems humans cannot obtain happiness. Virtue is the connection one has to happiness and how they should obtain it. My goal in this paper is to connect Aristotle’s book of Nicomachean Ethics to my own reasoning of self-ethics. I

Greece gave birth to one of the most famous and influential people to ever live, Aristotle. Aristotle, a great philosopher and thinker gave way to the development of a work commonly known as “Rhetoric”. Rhetoric broke down the argument to its core and devised three parts of any given argument those were, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Each part had its own unique and creative way of affecting the party it's being displayed to, however, Logos above the other three had an advantage of importance. Logic can be simply defined as a valid way of thinking about something. Logic is needed in any and all arguments to form a coherent thought, without Logos, Pathos and Ethos have no ground and are useless. Despite emotional appeal and credibility being extremely effective ways of arguing, Logos builds the fundamentals of arguments and is objectively the most effective.

Another anagnorisis within the plot is when Hamlet receives confirmation that what his father’s spirit told him was true as he observes his uncle’s reaction while watching a band of actors performing a crime scene similar to that of his father’s murder. This scene would not only prove to be important only to anagnorisis, but would also intensify Hamlet’s misery and further the development of his tragic flaw. Once more meeting the expectations of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy.