Even the Great Fall: The Story of Phyllis on Aristotle

One element of the author’s style that I noticed and enjoyed about this novel is how the author properly characterizes each member of the story interestingly, and successfully manages to make the story more appealing due to his use of multiple literary elements. One opening property in this novel is the use of characterization. Aristotle, the protagonist and narrator of this story, is considered a dynamic character. Through the beginning of this novel, Aristotle was very shy, and had a limited amount of friends; moreover, he portrayed himself as timid, antisocial, and basic compared to other of his “peers.” This all changed, however, shortly into the novel, when Aristotle stumbled into a new individual. The book continues by letting the reader understand that Aristotle likes feeling sorry for himself. A passage in the book to support this claim goes as follows,”Feeling sorry for myself was an art. I think a part of me liked doing that.” (Saenz, 13) We also discover that Aristotle’s dad seems far away to him regardless of living in the same house. Moreover, we get some small backstory of Aristotle’s father, and we understand that his father feels distant to him because of the Vietnam war; a war in which Aristotle’s dad was a part of. A line

     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.

"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete" (112).

The words of advice given to Alexander would change his behavior momentarily. Through others respect for her, she was able to dispel Alexander’s behaviors to live a life without torment briefly. In addition, she was able to shape her life by removing the immoral company of her husband through sending a request to those around the prince, who helped her to seclude herself from the immoral actions of her husband. A particular request of this nature was her request to stay in Tsarskoe Selo longer than usual, which was away from the city where her husband’s immoral company dwelled (p.79). Her request was granted to her eliminating Alexander’s immoral actions temporarily.

Plato’s The Republic and Aristotle’s The Politics are two classic texts in ancient Greek political thought. Although Plato taught Aristotle, the two philosophers had differing viewpoints on many subjects, one of them being the purpose of political rule. Plato believed that the purpose of political rule is to allow for the manifestation of a just city where both the city and its citizens are in harmony due to a specialization of roles according to individuals’ natures, whereas Aristotle believed that the purpose of political rule is to create a regime that pursues the common advantage and preserves the political partnership of the city.

1. In Aristotle, the good of man is described as final and self-sufficient. That is, the chief good is something final. This relates well to Uncle Chris throughout the movie. Everyone was scared of him – he drank, he drove fast and was quite brash. However, when he died, his nieces discovered that there was no inheritance, because he had been donating it to children with leg problems so that they didn’t grow up and limp as he did. No one knew, until that moment, that he was spending his money on children that he didn’t even know (aside from his nephew) so that they didn’t suffer the pain that he did. These donations were his chief good, and he could be described

Appearances are often misleading and not everything one sees is true. In Alexander the False Prophet, Lucian exposes Alexander as a fraud by pointing out Alexander’s manipulative actions to deceive others and by revealing Alexander’s methods of deceptions. Lucian successfully convinces his readers that Alexander is a scammer and a false prophet due to his credibility factor which includes his personal connections to the subject of his writing. Lucian accomplished it by describing Alexander’s bad nature and by revealing Alexander’s illogical procedures to scam people. Alexander was a great conqueror but his qualities as a scammer were similarly good in which he persuaded others into believing him despite his ulterior

Think about the various passages in the tutorial reading. Answer the question “How believable and consistent is the version of Spartan society which we get from the passages?”

Plato, a Greek philosopher, talks about a mythical place just beyond the "Pillars of Hercules". He said it was advanced far beyond anything else, and was protected by Poseidon. The atlanteans conquered the got pushed back from a rebellion. As a punishment they got hit with floods and earthquakes and sunk beneath the sea. But 300 years ago an Egyptian priest heard the story. The story happened 9,000 years ago.

When I proposed the question, “If the laws of Samford were causing you to go against your own moral standard, would you break them?” I heard a variety of answers from different students. However, one individual talked about how by going to Samford, we acknowledge their laws and therefore are obligated to follow them because we attend this University. He went on to say that we give up certain freedoms when we go into different places because everyone has differing beliefs about how things should work. He continued by saying that if we have a problem with the way Samford is run or what they are making us do then we can leave because it is not our job to tell them how to govern, but to find a place that lines up with how we think a place should

In the beginning of the story, Aristotle is traveling to Athens, alongside his nephew Callisthenes and his wife Pythias.

Before enrolling in PERF 115, I never studied theatre in an academic setting. My high school was lucky to have an underfunded drama club, let alone credited classes on the subject. Honestly, I joined PPP simply because I wondered what the class would entail; I enjoy a few stage productions, but I am not as emotionally invested in theatre as my peers. I expected this course to cover the fundamentals and origins of theatre, but I feared that these origins would lie in the the Greek and Renaissance periods. I had little experience in studying classic texts, leaving me trepid and uncertain of myself. However, the ways in which we approached both periods guided my studies, allowing me to overcome my anxiety and embrace the content. From my

Aristotle argues that all human activity is aimed at some end and that most of these ends are aimed at some other end. In the beginning of the movie Phil is caught in a mistake that many people make, by wanting a better job which he thinks will make him happy. He will be free from his worthless job in a low end neighborhood and then his life will be fantastic and consequently, he is making the mistake of a lower good of getting a job with the highest good of happiness. Furthermore, during this time, he is using people as a means to an end. As the movie continues Phil becomes more virtuous in the full sense of the word as the ancients meant by living the “good life”. A life of excellence. He stops having one night stands, learns to play piano,

Knowledge is defined as “facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject” or something that is a “true, justified belief or certain understanding…” (Oxford Dictionaries). During the 4th century BCE the Greek polis of Athens was experiencing a rapid spread of literacy, population growth, expansion, and trade, all of which factored into the creation of the first democratic form of government. Isocrates, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all prominent philosophers during this time-period and that implemented their knowledge to conduct rigorous questioning, experimentation, and exploration of new ideas. Being a student of Plato and the last Greek philosopher of his time, Aristotle immersed himself in a multitude of subjects, including, but not limited to: biology, ethics, politics, zoology, and he is credited for the creation of our current-day study of both individual and group psychology (Bizzell and Herzberg 170). Living in an ancient democratic society heavily influenced Aristotle and caused him to take a particular interest in different forms of discussion and argument that he deemed necessary for a democracy to flourish. Using prior knowledge from his predecessor’s, as well as new ideas of his own, Aristotle identified rhetoric as the key element needed to either persuade an audience. Although rhetoric was initially developed in ancient Greek probate courts, Aristotle redefined it as “the

truths, and forms. He had no room in his views for imagination and what he saw