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The origins of rhetoric : - Coggle Diagram
The origins of rhetoric :
The question of art
The sophistic view of rhetoric as an art was based merely on experience acquired in attempting to persuade audiences.
The rethorical literature of classical Athens was born
Art means the implicit claim that the manual offers instructor of practising rhetoric as a skill. "Art of discurse"
Practitioners of rhetoric were known for their potential speeches, that move audiences
3 Rhetorical genres
Deliberative
Its speech context is related with politics. More focused on adversarial debate assembly
Judicial
Focused on adversarial debate assembly
Epideictic
Solitary speech, funeral, festival, or military muster
the 3 rhetorical genres have 3 elements...
Speaker
his subject matter
His addressee
Dialetic and Aristotle´s definition of rhetoric
"Let us take rehtoric to be the ability to see , in any given case, the possible means of persuassion"
Dialectic is the art of discovering arguments that would compel an interlocutor to accept or reject particular propositions
Nothing that he could have intended himself but rather a consequance of that definition which has become evident as the discipline of rhetoric has evolved
" The audience is de key, since it is the audience that gives a speech its end" (1358bI-2)
Moral egoism: Natural and proper standard of moral conduct.
Plato---> Sophistic rhetoric: manipulate or trick the hearer for the sake of the author own best interest.
Persuasive Speech created
Rhetorical argument: Imposes the audience to make judgments
The Greek sophists
A group of intelectuals who rejected inherited convections in a number of fields and relieved on reason.
Polis
Setting, analytic framework, the topics of arguments of argument, and the stylistic registers of rhetoric as presented by Aristoteles
Description of the 3 Rhetorical genres
Each of them have a distinct kind of judgment
Related with polis.
They are consider abstract categories