Thursday, February 5, 2009
Question 2
I agree with the Greeks in saying that to be an orator you need to be morally good. People need to trust and you have to have the best interest of the people in mind when being an orator which would make a morally good person a lot more effective. I think the connection between goodness, truth and public communication is that if you want your message to be heard and respected and followed you need to have you need to have these qualities to make you more effective in persuading because people will put their trust in you because they believe you have their good fortunes in mind.
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ReplyDeleteI find your point of view on moral goodness very interesting. My answer was the complete opposite. While I agree with you that it is important for an orator to give off the illusion of trust worthiness, I find that people who are dishonest may come off as trust worthy as well. I think it is always important to look for the good in others. Maybe in that period of time it was easier to assess someone’s true self. Now with all the internet and fraud creating applications available we probably look at the world differently than they did then.
Capones Mom
Hello 49ers! You mentioned that a person has to be morally good in order to be an orator. Do you think this is the case across the board? Or are there certain exceptions to this rule? What about the outward appearance of morality versus something that isn't necessarily known? Does this disqualify someone from being an orator?
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