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Single Idea 5849
[filed under theme 19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Full Idea
Rhetoric is a kind of offshoot of dialectic and of the study of ethics, and is quite properly categorized as political.
Clarification
'Dialectic' is philosophical reasoning
Gist of Idea
Rhetoric is a political offshoot of dialectic and ethics
Source
Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1356a25)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Art of Rhetoric', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1991], p.75
A Reaction
Aristotle gives a higher status to rhetoric than Socrates and Plato did - and rightly, in my view. We have lost sight of it as a vital part of politics, and philosophers must fight for virtue in rhetoric, which requires right reason and fine principles.
The
24 ideas
with the same theme
[use of language for emotional influence]:
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Truth is not beautiful; beautiful speech is not truthful
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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7357
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People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated
[Kongzi (Confucius)]
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9866
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Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force
[Gorgias, by Plato]
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5864
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Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness
[Gorgias]
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114
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Rhetoric can produce conviction, but not educate people about right and wrong
[Plato]
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116
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Rhetoric is irrational about its means and its ends
[Plato]
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158
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An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker
[Plato]
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159
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Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker
[Plato]
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5946
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'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric
[Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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5945
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The 'Republic' is a great work of rhetorical theory
[Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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283
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The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion
[Plato]
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3324
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech
[Benardete,JA on Plato]
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22570
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Rhetoric now enables good speakers to become popular leaders
[Aristotle]
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5849
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Rhetoric is a political offshoot of dialectic and ethics
[Aristotle]
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20777
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Rhetoric has three types, four modes, and four sections
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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21667
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Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it
[Cicero]
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20814
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Eloquence educates, exhorts, comforts, distracts and unites us, and raises us from savagery
[Cicero]
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6681
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We only want to know things so that we can talk about them
[Pascal]
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20266
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It is essential that wise people learn to express their wisdom, possibly even as foolishness
[Nietzsche]
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24120
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Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
[Nietzsche]
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1596
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Reasoning aims not at the understanding of objects, but at the desire to give beautiful speeches
[Roochnik]
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1578
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If relativism is the correct account of human values, then rhetoric is more important than reasoning
[Roochnik]
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10358
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Often socialising people is the only way to persuade them
[Kusch]
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20946
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Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy
[Bowie]
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