Jay Heinrichs Insight Into the Art of Persuasion In the book, Thank You for Arguing, Jay Heinrichs provides the reader with several rhetoric techniques used in order to construct an effective argument and pass along a logical defense. Throughout this piece of literature, Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson take part in a huge role which teaches the reader about the art of persuasion, which in Heinrichs eyes, has been lost in today’s world due to the lack of people understanding its true purpose.
This book is known worldwide and is used quite frequently for school reading assignments which is useful for providing the future of this world with prior knowledge of rhetoric. Heinrichs does more than just describe the proper ways to argue, he also …show more content…
This isn’t seen too often in the world we live in today. Most people nowadays consider two people bickering back and forth with no means of an actual solution that’s effective, an argument, but it’s not. It’s just a fight, if we’re being honest. Heinrich covers this a whole lot in the beginning of the book but never ceases to let the audience forget it. One of the most important statements in this book can back of this idea perfectly when he states, “The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win: you argue to achieve agreement” (17). A good example of this idea can be seen through the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962. He was imprisoned for standing up against a government that was abusing black South Africans and for attempting to bring racial harmony back to South Africa. He wasn’t given a trial and sent to serve twenty-seven years in prison. This shows how Mandela was given no choice nor was he even allowed a trial so that his voice could be heard. The outcome of this situation was never truly solved nor was it actually acknowledged. In today’s world, this is how issues are solved. People either bicker with no outcome or ignore the problem and receive no outcome. Either way, there’s isn’t an outcome that solves anything. Even though the world we live in deals with the issue of no outcome on a daily basis, Heinrichs leaves the readers of this book with a better knowledge of what it means to argue and how to be intentional while
This book is known worldwide and is used quite frequently for school reading assignments which is useful for providing the future of this world with prior knowledge of rhetoric. Heinrichs does more than just describe the proper ways to argue, he also …show more content…
This isn’t seen too often in the world we live in today. Most people nowadays consider two people bickering back and forth with no means of an actual solution that’s effective, an argument, but it’s not. It’s just a fight, if we’re being honest. Heinrich covers this a whole lot in the beginning of the book but never ceases to let the audience forget it. One of the most important statements in this book can back of this idea perfectly when he states, “The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win: you argue to achieve agreement” (17). A good example of this idea can be seen through the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962. He was imprisoned for standing up against a government that was abusing black South Africans and for attempting to bring racial harmony back to South Africa. He wasn’t given a trial and sent to serve twenty-seven years in prison. This shows how Mandela was given no choice nor was he even allowed a trial so that his voice could be heard. The outcome of this situation was never truly solved nor was it actually acknowledged. In today’s world, this is how issues are solved. People either bicker with no outcome or ignore the problem and receive no outcome. Either way, there’s isn’t an outcome that solves anything. Even though the world we live in deals with the issue of no outcome on a daily basis, Heinrichs leaves the readers of this book with a better knowledge of what it means to argue and how to be intentional while