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Type of paper: Research Paper
Subject area: Philosophy
Academic level: College
Style: APA
Size: 46.5 kB
Word count:
2845 words/11 pages
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Author: Jolanda Pennington
Date submitted: 2009-09-23 04:48:01
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Running head : Classical Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric
Abstract
The presented work does not aim to carry out a comprehensive historical
analysis of classical rhetoric . The central inquiry our work will focus
on the differences in classical rhetoric . We are going to identify some
of the characteristics of each , the changing anatomy of rhetoric , and
some of the major theorists and movements . Also we incorporate the
different social -political climates and other factors relating to the
degree of importance of rhetoric .
The primary texts of classical rhetoric range from fifth-century B .C .
Greece to second-century A .D . Rome . George A . Kennedy in his book
``Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from
Ancient to Modern Times ' gives treatment to a history of classical
rhetoric-from the fifth century B .C . in Sicily to the late eighteenth
century in England and the United States . That 's a traditional book that
presents a compelling version of classical rhetoric as it is formed and
reformed in successive historical eras . Kennedy distinguishes eleven
stances of classical rhetoric : traditional , technical , sophistic ,
philosophical , rhetoric in the Roman Period , literary rhetoric ,
Judeo-Christian , Greek rhetoric in the Middle Ages , Latin rhetoric in
the Middle Ages , classical rhetoric in the Renaissance , Neoclassical
Rhetoric . Our analysis focuses on origins of rhetoric , basic means of
persuasion and controversy between rhetorical schools Socrates ,
Aristotle , Plato and Cicero .
The history of rhetoric is its origins . Classical rhetoric , in Plato 's
sense of "a universal art . having to do with all matters , great as
well as small , good and bad alike " and in Aristotle 's sense of "discovering in the particular case , what are the available means of
persuasion " According to Corbett , Aristotle is the foundation of all
future rhetorics "With his philosophic treatise , Aristotle became the
fountainhead of all later rhetorical theory (1990 , p . 543 . Aristotle
defines rhetoric as ``an ability , in each particular case , to see the
available means of persuasion (1991 , p . 14 . First handbooks of
rhetoric were published in the second quarter of the fifth century B .C .
They were helpful for the Greeks , as they outlined techniques for
effective public speaking in the law courts . Not only were there no
professional lawyers in Greece , there were no professional judges , so
litigants had to persuade the jury take the decisions they wanted with
no outside help . And Aristotle wrote his Rhetoric as he thought existing
handbooks were unsatisfactory , because they concentrated on judicial
situations to the neglect of the other species of rhetoric (Kennedy ,
1991 , p . 9 .
His primary interest was in the logical side of persuasion . Aristotle
identifies three basic pisteis , or means of persuasion , available to a
speaker : ``Ethos means the character of a person , not the rhetorical
presentation of that character and pathos means an emotion felt by
someone , not the awakening of emotion by a speaker . Logos , however , does
mean "argument " or what is said in a speech and a speech as a whole is
also called a logos (1991 , p . 8 . Rhetoric grounds itself in , at least...

 

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