What is the difference between ethos and pathos?
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The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
(theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
Pathos is a coordinate term of ethos.
In rhetoric terms the difference between ethos and pathos
is that ethos is a form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct while pathos is a writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.As nouns the difference between ethos and pathos
is that ethos is the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement while pathos is the quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.ethos
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(wikipedia ethos)Noun
(en-noun)See also
* logos * pathosAnagrams
*pathos
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Noun
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
