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9.03) Assignment Appeals To Emotions, Logic, and Ethics

Lincoln appealed to logic, emotion, and ethics in his Gettysburg Address. [1] He logically argued that dedicating the battlefield to those who died was fitting. [2] He evoked emotion by honoring the soldiers who struggled and died, urging the living to continue their noble work. [3] He ethically reminded people of the ideals of liberty and equality that the nation was founded upon. These multi-pronged appeals likely moved and unified the audience during the pivotal Civil War moment.

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9.03) Assignment Appeals To Emotions, Logic, and Ethics

Lincoln appealed to logic, emotion, and ethics in his Gettysburg Address. [1] He logically argued that dedicating the battlefield to those who died was fitting. [2] He evoked emotion by honoring the soldiers who struggled and died, urging the living to continue their noble work. [3] He ethically reminded people of the ideals of liberty and equality that the nation was founded upon. These multi-pronged appeals likely moved and unified the audience during the pivotal Civil War moment.

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An excerpt from The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—


we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be
here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.

1. What were the appeals to logic?

When Lincoln speeches about the convenience of dedicating that portion of


field to the construction of a cemetery for all the dead soldiers “it is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”. He
presents clearly the situation of the civil war and he, also, declares that
only those convinced and dedicated countries can remain

2. What were the appeals to emotion?

When Lincoln reminds the audience the fact that lot of men died and struggled
in the Gettysburg Battle “…brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here…” to serve their president with the objective of bringing the
country together “…the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced…” Also, he remarks that they must
continue the fight to finish their work and to procure that all these soldiers
haven’t died in vain.

3. What were the appeals to ethics?

When Lincoln reminds the audience, the effort made by their ancestors “our
fathers” in order to forge a nation based on the freedom “ conceived in
Liberty” and the equality between men “the proposition that all men
are created equal.”.

4. How do you believe these appeals affected the audience?

It sure affected the audience because Lincoln applied the three principal
argumentations: Ethos, Logos and Pathos. He spoke about the values
belonging to U.S, about the unfinished work of the dead brave soldiers and,
also, about the correct procedure of setting a cemetery there.

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