PHIL 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Athenian Democracy, Euripides, Tyrant
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Red text are questions from your reading guide attached to your syllabus. Blue text are questions posed during dr. mannies" pre-recorded lectures posted on ilearn. Blue page numbers correspond with political ideologies and the democratic ideal (10th ed. Green page numbers correspond with ideas and ideologies: a reader (10th ed. People don"t have the time or energy to engage in politics they"re busy working. The audience for which he wrote the play was familiar with king creon, and already viewed him as a tyrannical leader. His audience was athenian and would have already been biased toward theseus. These facts lead us to believe that this is not an unbiased debate about the benefits and drawbacks of democracy. Theseus has creon describing himself as a tyrant when that label had a negative connotation during that time. Rhetoric can be employed to persuade the masses, while conceding the faults of the leader.
