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Rhetoric - Coggle Diagram
Rhetoric
Aristotle
Context
Public discourse in polis
independent, autonomous communities
debates
public assembly
Competition for pleasing the audience through speech
democracy
Rhetoric of the Sophists
group that rejected inherited conventions
relied on reason
persuasive in public speaking
public speaking as a marketed skill
moral egoism
Approach of Plato
Ethical considerations in relation to rhetoric
Sophistic rhetoric is never good
discourse that seeks to manipulate
rejection of rhetoric due to his overall rejection of democracy
philosophical rhetoric
POV
Sophistry
Deceptive practice
fails to provide pertinent argument
focuses on marginal aspects of persuasion
fails to provide proof
Political Theory
collective deliberation
active citizens
Rhetorical Argument
Art
téchne
not art of aesthetic value
activities useful for humans
practical art
needs skilled practitioner
scientific basis, systematic, secure
technical manuals
Rhetoric Manual: "Rhetoric for Alexander"
Definition or Rhetoric
clarifies limits of art
given or external end
orientation of the art
purpose in the world
constitutive or internal end
practice of the art
what the individual focuses on and works at
Possible means of persuasion
proofs used by speaker
rhetoric as a counterpart to dialectic
Dialectic
Discovering arguments
no subject matter of its opwn
relation between premises and consequences