So if man wants to reunite himself with gods, he has to have something god-like (grace, conscience). What we seek is immortality- surviving beyond one's physical death. The future is determining present. 1. Beautiful bodies will give us children, who will honor us after we are dead (but only up to a point). Gorgias, On Rhetoric Gorgias argues that rhetoric, the art of persuasion is the highest art. Socrates: the rhetorician is like a cook who prepares a meal that everyone will enjoy, while the philosopher is like a doctor who must sometimes give his patients unpleasant medicine to make them better. - Pursuit of pleasure is not the highest good. The tyrant who can do whatever he wants is neither happy nor truly powerful (a theme which will be taken up again in The Republic). In the afterlife we will all have to be judged naked. Time will tell. Sophistry- False but appealing argument
Hampton Court were opened to public · Why were the Brits obsessed with the middle ages? People were afraid of new things, they didn't feel comfortable in new and fast-moving world; people wanted security and they found it in old things; Middle ages became popular, "Morte d'Arthur" by Thomas Malory 2) Ruskin and the medieval revival · Who was Ruskin and what were his ideas of art and culture? He was the greatest critic in the English language; rhetorician (person in the society, who always has sth to say about anything; not part of the politics, usually from arts department...); cast nature as a reflection of divine truth; instead classicism, looking for sth essentially British; believed in artistic socialism art and morality closely linked; against mass production , emphasis on quality; preferred Gothic, medieval revival in architecture; he taught people to appreciate art and he said that things that are important to British should
workplace. It also tried and failed to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. Many feminists view the second-wave feminist era as ending with the intra-feminism disputes of the Feminist Sex Wars over issues such as sexuality and pornography, which ushered in the era of third-wave feminism. Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician S. de Beauvoir `Second Sex' to describe women because she believes them to be an oppressed and marginalized group dominated in every aspect of society. 16. Angela Carter. The evolution of the writer's career 1960s-1990s: from radicalism to magic realist metafiction. Femininity as a constructed notion in A. Carter's short stories, novels and non-fiction. New Woman changing old rules in Nights at the Circus and The Loves of Lady Purple.