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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ]
Isocrates, Helen 41–52 (trans. Norlin) (Greek philosophy C4th BC) Plato, Republic 2. 379e ff (trans. Shorey) (Greek philosophy C4th BC) Scholiast on Plato, Republic 2. 379e ff (Plato The Republic Books I-V trans. Shorey Vol 5 1937 1930 p. 186) Aristotle, Rhetorica 1. 6. 20 ff (trans. Rhys Roberts) (Greek philosophy C4th BC) Aristotle ...
In the preface of Christian Prince addressed to Charles the prince, Erasmus states that Isocrates "was a sophist, instructing some petty king or rather tyrant, and both were pagans." [ 3 ] Erasmus' use of logos and pathos immediately follow when he completes the eschewing of Isocrates: "I am a theologian addressing a renowned and upright prince ...
According to Isocrates's Panegyricus, Evagoras was a model ruler, whose aim was to promote the welfare of his state and of his subjects by the cultivation of Greek refinement and civilization. [1] Isocrates also states that many people migrated from Greece to Cyprus because of the noble rule of Evagoras.