It was not a secret that Xun Zi was a confucian philosopher who lived between 313 and 213 BC. While Mencius believed that mankind is naturally good, Xun Zi argued that man is originally evil and needs to be shaped by society in order to become good. So, he advocated that the role of the [...]
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Confucian Philosopher – Xun Zi
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Confucianism
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Everybody has heard about Confucius (551 – 470 BC) and his pearls of wisdom, but not many people know that he was possibly one the first philosophers to think about ethics in relation to political order and that the Confucianism influenced the political science, leaving a legacy many times forgotten.
Confucius said : “Good government consists [...]
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
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Aristotle’s enthymeme is also known of as the rhetorical syllogism. It is a technique of persuasion, engaging one’s emotions, ethics and logic by using rhetoric.
The enthymeme is also known as the rhetorical syllogism. In explaining this device Aristotle references his Rhetoric, Prior Analytics, and Topics as well as other of his books. While Aristotle did [...]