Blog Post #2 Follow Up

Following up from class today, our discussion on kairos presented an interesting thought about how although the English language does not have a direct translation for kairos, it is something that we are  perhaps naturally inclined to do--to find when there is an opportunity for an argument, when not only the timing is right, but also when when audience is appropriate.  

I found an interesting parallel between the homosexual accounts of classic Greek students and their teachers, and how there seemed to be a surplus of sexual importance in rhetoric and overall education.  In the past there has been little to no opportunity for homosexual relationships to be "social accepted"; perhaps there was not the proper audience for people to accept or agree with homosexual rights (which were not the case or argument in ancient times, rather merely the social normalcy of the action) and as time has progressed--even more recently within the past year the audience has been more appropriate for an acceptance of homosexual relations, there now has been the kairos.