*2). The Greeks believed that to be an orator, an individual had to be morally good. Comment on whether you agree or disagree. What, if any, is the connection between goodness, truth, and public communication?
Orators tend to have special power when it comes to influencing people into action, thus it only makes sense that in order to be an orator one has to have good morals. With this power comes big responsibility, and a good orator has to know how to use his/her abilities.
If an individual is immoral, the audience will receive false information along with immoral unethical thoughts and or ideas.
For example, German's leader Adolf Hitler was an amazing speaker as he had an uncanny ability to get a rise out of people like nobody else. People trusted him, because they thought he was leading them into the right direction. The individual has to have good moral intentions in order for the audience to be influenced by an ethical person.
There is an absolute connection between goodness, truth and public communication as all three follow each other and if one is out of place, the speaker along with the speech is no longer credible. If a speaker has goodness, but yet he/she lies while on the stage that speaker is longer commanding of attention. It only takes one time to say something morally wrong or lie to the audience and usually the relationship is over between the speaker and audience.
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ReplyDeleteCan't figure out how to edit my response, so I'll just repost:
ReplyDeleteI also mentioned Hitler in my response, but I said that a speaker didn't have to be moral in order to be successful. However, you bring up a great point that I've overlooked: people have to believe the speaker is leading them on the path of righteousness. While Hitler was really persuading people to do evil, his followers believed they were "fighting the good fight" and that makes all the difference--they have to believe it's good. While I do believe that it's possible to persuade someone to do something evil while they know that it's evil, I can only imagine it being extremely difficult, but I suppose in that case, they must feel like revenge is necessary.
Hello Siral! In what ways do you think an a speaker has to be morally good? In their personal lives? In their research? In their professional lives? Do they have to be morally good in each of these areas? What is your opinion about this?
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