Premium Content Ethics in Verse
by Stephen Hirsch - December 01, 2002
Boston University Trustee Scholars are encouraged to develop well-informed and well-reasoned views of important political and social issues. The University neither expects nor wants Trustee Scholars to espouse all the same principles or commitments, but we do try to select students who have a sense of how to present persuasive arguments in support of their views. With that in mind, write an essay of no more than 600 words responding to the following:
"Poetry is of greater ethical import than history since poetry relates more of the universal, while history relates the particulars."
-Aristotle
Aristotle was wise to say that "poetry is of greater ethical import than history since poetry relates more of the universal, while history relates the particulars," for poetry can put one inside the universal body of human experience, while history, like a mirror, simply reflects to one the external details of that body. A poem is of "greater…
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