Religion and Rhetoric
No speaker who has transgressed should be able to speak out loud.
Who is Margaret Fell Fox?
Women had the support of Jesus, so they should have the support of the church
Who is Margaret Fell?
There is only divine Truth, and we only see replicas of it.
Who is Plato?
Who is Cicero?
Audience should be presented with speeches that are political, forensic, or ceremonial
Who is Plato OR Aristotle?
The orator's role is to convey divine truth to the audience
St. Augustine
Women of sound education can be used to teach girls.
Who is Sor Juana de la Cruz?
Truth is on a continuum with lies
Who is Frankfurt "On Bullshit"?
Rhetoric: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperations in beings that by nature respond to symbols
Who is Burke?
Listeners (or readers) should be presented with one of the modes of discourse: description, narration, exposition, oratory
Who is Bain?
God is dead
Who is Nietzsche?
No matter what level of intensity they use to speak, women will be seen as less credible and persuasive than men.
Who is Jacobs?
Science is needed to get at Truth.
Who is Aristotle?
Rhetoric controls power; power controls Rhetoric
Who is Foucault?
Audiences respond better to a speaker who reflects their own emotional state
Who is Jacobs, "You Tell 'Em Trump!"
The study of "moral virtue" is useful but not required in a rhetorician
Who is Ramus?
If women have to depend on husbands to learn about the scriptures, who will teach widows?
Who is Margaret Fell?
There is no truth; there is only agreed meaning of certain signs
Who is Locke?
Rhetoric is an art which leads the soul by means of words
Who is Plato?
Audiences prefer views that back up their own ideas/morals
Who is Kolbert?
Who is Sor Juana de la Cruz?
Women must have time and space to think and write
Who is Virginia Woolf OR who is Sor Juana de la Cruz?
Rhetoric is part of the humanistic concern with discovering truth
Who is Ramus?
Information must be presented to an audience by a speaker who is a good/moral man
Who is Quintilian?
Audience understands that words and signs correspond with one another
Who is Locke?