Q.3, 4, 5= BLOCK F Huxley Paraphrase by tylene https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a with your group. make bullet point notes en-us 2016-09-21 18:59:13 UTC 2016-09-21 19:32:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Rhetorical Strategies https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125540531 Pathos: he’s biased and he thinks humans are inherently evil. It is clear he is very much influenced by Thomas Hobbes. 

  • "they were no more to be praised or blamed on moral grounds than their less erect and more hairy compatriots."

Logos: he uses credibility by using the idea of social-darwinism (idea of the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals; the strongest survive and the weakest parish.)

  • "The weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived.
metaphor: 
  •  “In the cycle of phenomena presented by the life of man, the animal, no more moral end is discernible than in that presented by the lives of the wolf and of the deer.” 
The author opens up his argument by comparing humans to animals so as to emphasize just how barbaric and inhumane we were. The reader clearly sees the author’s argument and his perspective on the spectrum of human evolution. 

Imagery: 
  • The human species, like others, plashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution, keeping its head above water as it best might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither.”  
The author use of colorful words presents an image to the reader, so it is easier to picture the state of existence of human beings. Again, we are placed in the same category as animals and other living creatures, who are also fighting to survive, fighting just to stay afloat the gushing waters of the current, and not to drown (or die). 
]]> 2016-09-21 19:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125540531 Theme https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125540579 Without order, mortality, and peace, men are barbaric savages struggling to survive. ]]> 2016-09-21 19:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125540579 Matter https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125541098 In writing this passage, Huxley advocates for the theory evolution. He makes the reader reflect on mankind's savage nature and rise to civilized morality. He pushes the reader to question how and why society came to be, while analyzing and questioning their own morals.

]]> 2016-09-21 19:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125541098 Central Argument isabella_canani https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125541219 Thomas Henry Huxley's central argument is that, at the roots of all men, savagery exists, creating no distinction between them and beasts in the wild; but the men who substituted war for peace created society.]]> 2016-09-21 19:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125541219 RHETORICAL STRATEGIES- SYNTAX https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125542231 Anecdote
-Huxley begins some paragraphs with a short instance demonstrating the innate savagery of man.
---Wolf and Deer
Organization
-In each paragraph, Huxley presents his audience with a concise example that serves to stress a point or detail between the laws of man and those of nature. 
Diction
-Imagery 
----"plashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution"


These strategies greatly strengthen the argument by eliciting strong emotions within the audience through the heavy implementation of pathos-centered assertions. 





          

]]> 2016-09-21 19:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125542231 Quote for Central Argument  isabella_canani https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125543637 “However imperfect the relics of prehistoric men may be, the evidence which they afford clearly tends to the conclusion that, for thousands and thousands of years, before the origin of the oldest known civilizations, men were savages of a very low type."]]> 2016-09-21 19:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125543637 Assertions https://padlet.com/tylene_devine/g2c0zxqd287a/wish/125544985
  • “Before the origin of the oldest known civilizations, men were savages of a very low type.”
  • Huxley’s diction gives a negative connotation in the image of “savages”. He argues man’s integral immorality from the beginning of time.
  • “They were born, multiplied without stint, and died, for thousands of generations, alongside the mammoth, the urus, the lion, and the hyena, whose lives were spent in the same way; and they were no more to be praised or blamed on moral grounds than their less erect and more hairy compatriots.”
  • Huxley does not give any more credit or blame to man’s actions than can be given to animals. He emphasizes his point by the stark comparison between man and animal, until it is difficult to distinguish one from the other.
  • “The ideal of the ethical man is to limit his freedom of action to a sphere in which he does not interfere with the freedom of others; he seeks the common weal as much as his own; and, indeed, as an essential part of his own welfare.”
  • Men want mutual peace instead of war, and work toward this peace for the common good. Although having immoral characteristics, man is not complete without moral qualities.
  • “For society not only has a moral end, but in its perfection, social life, is embodied morality.”
  • Huxley intertwines the ideas of society and morality, claiming that one cannot exist without the other. This emphasizes society as the end of primitive times.
  • “He tries to escape from his place in the animal kingdom, founded on the free development of the principle of nonmoral evolution, and to establish a kingdom of man, governed upon the principle of moral evolution.”
  • Even though evolution had hardened their survival instincts, people’s choice of moral behavior points to the innate goodness intermixed with these instincts.
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