What do the people in your church think about rhetoric How is rhetoric abused What did Plato think of rhetoric Are they right Socrates Professor Stilley shame on you how can you talk about rhetoric without first defining it ID: 223335
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Aristotle’s RhetoricSlide2
What do the people in your church think about rhetoric?Slide3
How is rhetoric abused?What did Plato think of rhetoric?
Are they right?Slide4
Socrates: “Professor
Stilley
, shame on you; how can you talk about rhetoric without first defining it?”Slide5
What is Rhetoric? [Opening paragraph]
What is the purpose of rhetoric? Is it all about persuasion?
How did Aristotle define
Rhetoric
?Slide6
What are Aristotle’s three proofs furnished through speech?
1.
2.
3.
[okay, go ahead and look at page 74]
DemonstrationSlide7
So, what are appropriate means of persuasion?Slide8
Do we use syllogisms when we are engaged in discourse? [page 75]
What is a syllogism?Slide9
“Stilley
shops at Dollar Tree.”
What is an
enthymeme
?Slide10
ProbabilitySignification
Evidence
Example
Induction
What?Slide11
DeliberativeForensic
Display
[page 80]
Three Types of Rhetorical SpeechSlide12
“…all exhortations and dissuasions are concerned with happiness…” [page 87]
How important was happiness according to Aristotle?
What is Happiness according to Aristotle.
What are the elements of Happiness according to Aristotle?
Deliberative SpeechSlide13
According to Aristotle, deliberation is primarily about means rather than ends. [page 91]
Therefore, if the chief end of man is happiness, the deliberative orator primarily addresses means to happiness, not happiness itself.
Would this principle be the same for Christian preachers/teachers?
Happiness as an end, not meansSlide14
DemocracyOligarchy
Aristocracy
Monarchy
Which is the United States? England? Russia?
Four Constitutions [page 102]Slide15
Virtue and viceNobility and baseness
What is the difference between laudation and encomium? [page 108]
DisplaySlide16
According to Aristotle, what role does
pleasure
play in the mechanics of human behavior?
ForensicsSlide17
“By law I mean on the one hand particular law and on the other general law, special being that defined by each group in relation to itself, this being either unwritten or written down, and the general law being that of nature.” [page 125]
Empedocles : murder
Alcibiades: slaverySlide18
Two kinds of crimes; against the community and against an individual
Adultery
Mugger
Draft-dodger
Tax-evasion
Community or IndividualSlide19
Does equity mean that everyone should be treated the same? [page 127]
Equity?Slide20
When Aristotle speaks of emotion and character as
proofs
, is he giving ground to the sophists?
EmotionSlide21
Common sense
Virtue
Goodwill
Friendship/enmity
Fear/confidence
Shame
Gratitude
PityIndignationEnvy
Jealousy
What role should they play?