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Title: Overview of Rhetoric
Description: Chapter 1/Lecture 1: Overview of Rhetoric This is a brief overview of Rhetoric. This goes along with the textbook and in class notes. What is highlighted in the text is important. What is Rhetoric, and how is it important? This first part of the lecture and chapter 1 in the book is important for the first exam
Description: Chapter 1/Lecture 1: Overview of Rhetoric This is a brief overview of Rhetoric. This goes along with the textbook and in class notes. What is highlighted in the text is important. What is Rhetoric, and how is it important? This first part of the lecture and chapter 1 in the book is important for the first exam
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An Overview of Rhetoric
My first problem lies of course in the very word "rhetoric
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What is Rhetoric? Where do you see it playing out in your life?
• Art of persuasion in an abstract form
• Persuade of speaking
○ Coach is trying to persuade characters/motivate them
○ Logic / pathos
○ He knows how to articulate his speaking
Early Rhetoric
• The earliest and most influential discussions of rhetoric occurs in Plato's dialogue
Gorgias
○ Gorgias - a work written in the opening decades of the fourth century
BCE when rhetoric was popular in Athens
○ Plato takes a dim view of rhetoric
• Socrates argues that the type of rhetoric being taught in Athens was simply a means
by which "naturally clever" people and "flatter" their unsuspecting listeners into
agreeing with them and doing their bidding
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• Friedrich Nietzsche - 19th century German philosopher who made a serious study of
rhetoric
○ "we call an author, a book, or a style
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This power is what the
gentle reproof"
○ The artistic means which are already founded in language
§ Language itself possesses an irreducible artistic quality?
§ Language itself is the result of purely rhetorical arts
□ The power to discover and to make operative that which works
and impresses with respect to each thing
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□ There is no unrhetorical "naturalness" of language to which one
could appeal; language itself is the result of purely rhetorical arts
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§ We need to go back to the original Western thinking about reading and
writing
Title: Overview of Rhetoric
Description: Chapter 1/Lecture 1: Overview of Rhetoric This is a brief overview of Rhetoric. This goes along with the textbook and in class notes. What is highlighted in the text is important. What is Rhetoric, and how is it important? This first part of the lecture and chapter 1 in the book is important for the first exam
Description: Chapter 1/Lecture 1: Overview of Rhetoric This is a brief overview of Rhetoric. This goes along with the textbook and in class notes. What is highlighted in the text is important. What is Rhetoric, and how is it important? This first part of the lecture and chapter 1 in the book is important for the first exam