The Father of Rhetoric
"The ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion."
Who is homeboy Aristole?
Cicero's Rhetorica Ad-herennium.
(The five things that make up Rhetoric according to him.)
1. Invention 2. Arrangement
3. Delivery
4. Style 5. Memory
Philosophers in the Classical periods (400 BC).
Who is Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, and Piutarch?
Believed that rhetoric was the art of speaking well, and he also attacked Aristoles's logic, AND stole from Cicero's points.
Who is Peter Ramus?
Pronounced:(Ray-moo)
"Rhetoric is concerned with the state of Babel after the fall."
Who is Kenneth Burk?
Parts of the Rhetorical Triangle
On the top: Speaker/write On the bottom left: audience On the bottom right: subject In the middle: exiogence (rhetorical situation)
Century of the philosophers: V. Wolf, K. Burke, Toulman, and Foucalt.
What is the 20th Century? (Modern & Post-Modern)
Defined rhetoric as cooperation within community regarding symbols, and that symbols created equal relationships.
Who are the Sonja Foss & Karen Foss, aka--*announcer voice--the Foss sisters?
*dramatic electric guitar riff*
"The duty and office of Rhetoric is to apply Reason and Imagination for the better moving of the will."
Who is Francis Bacon?
A symbol or something that always resembles the same thing throughout all cultures.
What is an archetype?
"The artistic means which are already means which are already found in language."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
"Let's say, very schematically, that the rhetorician is, or at any rate, may well be an effective liar who constrains others. The bold of speech, on the contrary, is the courageous teller of a truth by which he puts himself and his relationship with the other at risk."
Who is Michel Foucalt?
Pronouced: (foo-coo)