Posted: Jun 06, 2015 1:25 am
Clive Durdle wrote:Probably in commons! I told you he was a saint!
Indeed! The power of the sword and the power of the pen.
The Christian persecution is a pseudo-history which has been used as an appeal to the emotions of its readers.
- Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration,
since we are most fully persuaded when we
consider a thing to have been demonstrated
Of the modes of persuasion furnished
by the spoken word there are three kinds. [...]
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character
when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. [...]
Secondly, persuasion may come through the hearers,
when the speech stirs their emotions. [...]
Thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself
when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means
of the persuasive arguments suitable to the case in question.
---- ARISTOTLE, "Rhetoric", 350 BCE
In summary .... Aristotle's Three Modes of Persuasion in Rhetoric
Ethos = Appeal to the audience's sense of honesty and/or authority
Pathos = Appeal to the audience's sense of emotions
Logos = Appeal to the audience's sense of logic
The pseudo-history of the Christian persecutions is pathetic.