After today’s class I realized that ethos logos and pathos are not just terms that can be discussed within a classroom setting, but yet are terms that can be used in everyday life. Within every detail of our life’s we, as people, can analysis how everything we do relates back to motivation which is persuasion and how within persuasion ethos logos and pathos come into play.
To begin, I believe that rhetoric will and has helped me throughout my life, an example: in a classroom setting many different types of students are placed together all with different moral beliefs, religious backgrounds, and different cultures. Suppose a discussion arose when talking about the War in Iraq. Many of the students would be pron to speak their parents view points, what there friends think, what the television says, what they have heard in their political science classes. All of these arguments are driven through ethos logos and pathos and depending on where their argument lies depends on what persuaded them to think a certain way.
I understand how through arguments within ethos logos and pathos the beginning for these has to start with rhetoric. Rhetoric in the most simply form starts from persuasion. Each idea that people has. Like Mr. Garrison says, was thought of before by someone else who persuaded them to think that way.
I believe that through rhetoric people are persuaded through their life to make certain choices depending on their belief system and within those choices others follow and they were somehow persuaded through ethos logos and pathos.
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I also believe that rhetoric plays a bigger part in our lives than we even knew. I think a lot of our actions, comments, and thoughts come from a subconscious level. I think that often we are being persuasive even when we don’t realize it. I think this class is going to teach us a lot of valuable ways to use rhetoric to our advantage.
ReplyDelete'All of these arguments are driven through ethos logos and pathos and depending on where their argument lies depends on what persuaded them to think a certain way." And i think this is a very important thing for kids to know. In order to be effective at persuading, they need to get that the data they're providing is implying something.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that we were all persuaded, at some point, to think a certain way...but it just kind of sounds depressing!! It makes me feel like I have no original ideas left!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the posting, Ashley, though I cannot agree with your comment earlier in the article, about each motivation being linked to persuasion. But let me explain. To me, 'persuasion' implies an argument is in place, and an argument involves a relation between a conclusion and various proposals. So, if "John MacEnroe is kicking my dog" is persuasive, where is the conclusion, or the proposal? That statement could be eiher one, but, surely, it couldn't be both. Therefore, it's a declaritive statement.
ReplyDeleteI agree that through ethos pathos and logos were are all persuaded to do things and say things, etc. I agree with the above comment that this is a bit depressing and makes me feel very unoriginal!!
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