Vocab
Often called Classical Rhetoric.
What is the Rhetoric of Domination?
The opposite of the Rhetoric of Domination
What is the Rhetoric of Love?
The three parts of the perspective triangle.
What are personal, normative, and situational?
The act of not listening to your opponent's argument, but instead trying to bring them into contempt, hatred, etc.
What is prejudgement?
What are Aristotle's 3 appeals in Rhetoric?
What are Logos, Ethos, and Pathos?
The author believes this is the primary reason, the most basic motivation for why we seek to persuade.
What is Injustice?
Good actions, behaviors, or viewpoints. The opposite of Vices
What are virtues?
Questions that help us decide if something is worth arguing or not.
What are Pre-stasis questions?
A reason for believing something
What is an argument?
What the author says is the ultimate center of all the universe.
What is personality?
A person's acceptance, with or without proof, that something is true.
What is a belief?
The author says that all comedy is based around this
Injustice
A set of helpful questions used to boil down a conflict or issue to its most basic parts.
There are 4 main types.
What are stasis questions?
Answers to "why?" questions
What are reasons?
Removing one part of your hypothetical syllogism for dramatic effect.
What is a syllogism?
A helpful tool the author uses to differentiate between 3 different viewpoints.
The art of using the best signs to convey a message to shift peoples attitudes.
What is Rhetoric?
Instead of calling our enemies or those who disagree with us fools, we are to show this mindset.
What is empathy? OR What is indwelling?
A reasoned objection to someone's argument
What is a counter-argument?
The art of coming up with something persuasive to say.
The three parts of Rhetoric
Out of the 3 tools for Rhetoric, the author claims that this is the most effective.
What are Actions?
A helpful logic tool to show the pattern a person's argument
What is the hypothetical syllogism?