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12 Cards in this Set
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Ramus
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Arguments Against Quintilian;
Defective idea of orator Incomplete in explicating Syllogism Also argues against Aristotle & Cicero in defining rhetoric as mixture of arts, rather than one tropes & Figures |
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James J Murphy
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Persuasive Campaign in Early Christianity:
Acts and Luke dedicated to development of orator, influence of greek, roman and scuola |
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Augustine
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On Christian Doctrine
explains how to use rhetoric for the cause of christianity; Wisdom over Eloquence (v. eloquent nonsense) "He, then, shall be eloquent, who can say little things in a subdued style, in order to give instruction, moderate things in a temperate style, in order to give pleasure, and great things in a majestic style, in order to sway the mind." |
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Reason and revelation are parallel roads to the truth
Truth is attainable Rhetoric creates only a “suspicion” that one opinion is to be preferred over another Rhetoric is contaminated by emotions, worldly interests of the speaker Reason/dialectic is to be preferred over rhetoric |
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Roger Bacon
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Rhetoric valuable for “moral matters”
Distinguishes between “demonstration” (scientific, “empirical demonstration”), dialectic (formal logic), and rhetoric Dialectic and rhetoric used for moral discourse Rhetoric’s role—to communicate the truth convincingly to masses Dialectic gives you the teaching; rhetoric makes it persuasive |
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Descartes
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Early Modernist
Supported objectivity; saw mind & body as separate in intimate union: dualism |
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Wilson
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Rhet. is alternative to violence/war
Man's descent to savagry, God uses Rhet to bring Reason, Installation of order makes paradise |
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John Locke
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Words are used for recording and communicating our thoughts;
Objective in communication Words are abstract in their significance, imperfection - Scientistic Rejection School of concentrated focus |
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Giambattista Vico
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Discusses Instruments, aims and aids of rhetoric.
Ancients left systematic treatments that are unaided Too much natural science, not enough ethics- ethics require imagination Common sense grants creativity in realm of probability |
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Kenneth Burke
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Form: entrapment of listeners; draws them in
-creation and satisfaction of expectation in mind of hearer -universal forms exist in human consciousness Burke's Pentad: Agency, Agent, Purpose, Scene Focuses on Form, Dramatism, Perspective of Incongruity, Identification and Termmistic Screens Dramatism: Creating mini dramas Consubstantiality Perspective of incongruity: 2 ideas together exposing their differences -Consubstantiality |
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CS Lewis
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The head rules the belly thru the chest.
1)Predicate Value 2) Treats emotion as contemptable: suspision of all emotion i.e. The waterfall Tao- Objective standard of morality |
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Spitzack & Carter
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Conceptualizations of Women: Assumptions of socio-cultural practices
1 womanless comm 2 great women of comm 3 woman as other 4 Politics of woman as other |
