Friday, September 2, 2011
Discussion Question #2
In my personal opinion I do believe that an orator has to be morally good. Otherwise your just a speaker who is trying to win the audiences attention by telling them false information and things they want to hear. Whether they are true or not. I believe that goodness, truth, and public communication all can be tied into one. If you want goodness you must speak the truth. And if you speak the truth, it will get out and around to the public. And individuals will notice you and want you to be a leader for them. Talking to the public takes a lot of responsibility. Whether it's using Ethos, Pathos, or Logos to reach them or by already knowing the answers to the questions they're going to ask.
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Ethos is the only one of Aristotles three ways to sway an audience that I believe requires a person to be morally good. The other two ways only require the individual to arouse emotions in others and be able to possess logically reasoning in their message. The ability to sway an audience with evocative language certainly does not require a person to be morally good, but merely to posses the power of manipulation. I can see what you were saying about the difference between an orator and a speaker though and I think that is valid.
ReplyDeleteHi I have to say that I agree with your opinion an orator has to be good because you will increase trust, credibility. People will follow you because they will know you are talking with the true they will believe everything you say. Of course people will select a orator who speak with the true who as moral to be their leader. As you say talking to the public takes a lot of responsibility because you can changes peoples mind in a good or bad way so it is very important that an orator have the responsibility of deliver morally good speeches.
ReplyDeleteHi, I do agree with your opinion as well. Credibility is extremely important. It increases the ability to believe in the message. I do think, however, that there have been successful orators that have come from a questionable past. They have overcome the lack of trust that arose from their past. An example would be those incarcerated for criminal conduct. There have been a few that used their poor choices in life to teach others, through the logos style of communication. There have been many influential politicians in this country that have been arrested or engaged in morally inappropriate behavior. This probably should be a factor at which we look when hearing a message, but the poor choices in life should not be an automatic disqualifier to the message.
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