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From this Atticus concludes that the soul of the primordial matter must itself be disordered and therefore "bad" (kakḗ). For him, together with the matter it enlivens, the soul is the cause of badness in the world. Atticus uses the technical term "malicious soul" (kakergétis psychḗ) for this, which is characteristic of his teaching.
Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. [1] The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". [2] Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.
Atticism (meaning "favouring Attica", the region of Athens in Greece) was a rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC. It may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine Greek (both literary and vulgar), which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of Hellenistic ...
Brutus – He is a friend of Atticus and a person who does not like eloquence. Atticus – He is a friend of Brutus who encounters Cicero while walking somewhere. Cicero mentions that Atticus is from Athens when he discusses the beginnings of oratory. Atticus speaks the least of all the three men.
'Ohioans are shocked, shocked to learn that bullying, thuggery, and intimidation are part of the Republican repertoire. But that is only part of their modus operandi,' writes Denis Smith
But behind the curtain, their actions smack of something else — hypocrisy, opportunism and a cynical belief that Floridians will buy whatever they’re selling. Three reports this past week ...
It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, [1] or hypocrisy. [2] Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging ...
I thought, “I’ve gotta comment on this hypocrisy.” There’s a big dash of the Kinks in that song. Andy Partridge during a show with XTC, opening a 1980 show for the Police in Belgium.