Precis: Essay #2 by Marisol Thayre https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8 Post your group's precis here! en-us 2018-02-27 03:19:35 UTC 2018-02-27 18:23:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Professor of Philosophy and Novelist, Anthony Appiah, in his piece, “ The Case against Character “ improves the idea of the virtuous human being and analyzes what makes a person with good ethics and morals. Appiah uses allusions, reductio ad absurdum as well as turnaround to further define his idea of the virtuous person. Appiah’s purpose is to expand on Aristotle’s previous theory of virtue and explain why it is rather situational as opposed to simply characteristic. Appiah broadens his audience to more than those interested in philosophy; he addresses the public as a whole using examples to simplify a previously vague, yet complicated theory. https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236054756 2018-02-27 18:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236054756 https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236055360 American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist, Kwame Anthony Appiah, in his essay “The Case for Character”, published in 2008, addresses the topic of  virtues and what it takes to be a virtuous. Appiah supports his claim by using credible sources from philosophers, movies and experiments  to make his statements stronger. Appiah's purpose is to educate his audience on virtues, ethics and morals. He adopts a convincing tone for his audience, and others interested in the topic philosophy.  Appiah is making his audience rethink their behaviors, and why they act a certain way.
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]]> 2018-02-27 18:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236055360 https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236056377  Professor in Philosophy, Kwame Anthony Appiah, in his excerpt, “The Case against Character,” published in 2008 in the book Experiments and Ethics, explores the idea of what it means to be virtuous and if you use virtuous acts, does it make you virtuous. He supports this claim by ambiguity, suggesting more than one possible meaning, then uses sententia which is a phrase that is considered to have a lot of wisdom, along with deductive reasoning. Appiah’s purpose is to inform and educate the general public about what virtue is considered and how to learn and apply it to one’s life by using these three rhetorical strategies. He adopts a casual tone for his audience, those who are interested in philosophy and those who are trying to be good people. 

]]> 2018-02-27 18:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236056377 https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236057013 The “Case for Character” by Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, addresses the topic of virtues in people. “The Case of Character” continues on and debunks both the situationists and globalists ideas of character and virtue. The author supports his claim by citing different studies, using analogies, and using authoritative quotations. He uses this claim to explain his views on character and virtue in order to inform his audience about the different views of virtue and why they don’t work. He adopts a casual tone for his audience so that his readers don’t discount his views before they have even finished reading it.

]]> 2018-02-27 18:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236057013 this is total trash https://padlet.com/mthayre/sev7ehh2z9e8/wish/236057557 Elisha Velazquez
Ms. Thayre
English 120
27 Feb 2018
Written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Case against Character” is written to inform the general audience that no one is born a virtuous person, but that we are shaped by positive situations to become a person that is “good nature”. Appiah is able to appeal this cynical point of view, and connect to most readers, by his style of diction, creating this atmosphere in where it seems as if he is spilling his ideas to only you. Aside from this connection's examples are easily correlated into real life, as he uses many real life scenarios or personal connections that any person would be able to live through. 

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