Making Of Tyrant

The Making-of a Tyrant
When it comes to talk about this phenomenon, one of the most difficult task is to get rid of the ideologies, words or phrases that have become and automatic part of today’s daily-life vocabulary that most people do not realize how meaningless they might be, but whenever uttered by some politicians or written on some mainstream media they take such an enormous meaning. As a case in point, in modern usage, ‘tyrant’ portrays an image of a cruel or oppressive ruler; and with that being said, one may agree that that may be the case of Muammar Gaddafi. But that is just the starting point of the problem. Based on the ideologies that so many politicians as well as some mainstream media have been passing to the people, one might …show more content…
Since this work is related to CDA, and as taking rhetoric as a standpoint, this paper has found it pertinent to assert that imprecision in discourse is permissible, and when it comes to consider which actions to take that is the point when this phenomenon of ‘tyranny’ becomes problematic. Simply put, tyranny is what illegitimatizes political regimes.
This paper has felt compelled to look for further opinions and therefore came up with the perspective of the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, who defends that the tyrant rules for his or her own advantage. Moreover, he asserts that the term “tyranny” may be applied more broadly as a synonym for “corrupted government”, which is meaning that this phenomenon has taken in modern time, and following this line of thought given by Aristotle, one may conclude that tyranny would seem to be any government which rules for the sake of the ruler(s), rather than for the sake of the people. Furthermore, it would also include that further qualification that tyranny consists in government which rules arbitrarily in contradistinction to the rule of law, whereby the governing is predictable and equitable for those who are