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Norlin was born in Concordia, in Cloud County, Kansas, the son of Gustaf Wilhelm Norlin (1821–1911) and Valborg Fahnehielm Norlin (1832–1887), both Swedish immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1869. [2] He moved to Fish Creek, Wisconsin with his family in 1879. [3] Norlin received his Bachelor of Arts in Greek from Hastings ...
Isocrates says of qualities of being a good orator, ""these things, I hold, require much study and are the task of a vigorous and imaginative mind" (sec. 17). Yun Lee Too says that this is what is called Isocrates "doxastic soul" or the soul with an aptitude for determining "doxa", or the common opinion. [ 5 ]
According to George Norlin, Isocrates defined rhetoric as outward feeling and inward thought of not merely expression, but reason, feeling, and imagination. Like most who studied rhetoric before and after him, Isocrates believed it was used to persuade ourselves and others, but also used in directing public affairs.
According to George Norlin, "At any rate, in the Antidosis—a title which he borrows from the actual suit to which he had just been subjected—he adopts the fiction of a capital charge brought against him by an informer named Lysimachus, and of a trial before a court with its accessories."
On the Abundance of Laws (in Greek: Περί πολυνομίας) is an excerpt from Isocrates' Areopagiticus, where he argues that an abundance of laws is not a sign of good governance, but rather an indication of mismanagement. Central to his argument is the belief that shaping citizens' character is more crucial than proliferating laws.
For the God who created and upholds the universe was not created – he is eternal. He was not 'made' and therefore subject to the laws that science discovered; it was he who made the universe with its laws. Indeed, that fact constitutes the fundamental distinction between God and the universe. The universe came to be, God did not.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
While the Copernican principle is derived from the negation of past assumptions, such as geocentrism, heliocentrism, or galactocentrism which state that humans are at the center of the universe, the Copernican principle is stronger than acentrism, which merely states that humans are not at the center of the universe. The Copernican principle ...