Rhetorica: Won’t Someone Please Think of the Pathetic?—Part II
On the rhetorical appeal known as pathos; or, a practical manual for manipulating people’s emotions.
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Rhetorica: Won’t Someone Please Think of the Pathetic?—Part I
What, if anything, differentiates the rhetorician’s legitimate “appeal to emotion” from the sophist’s fallacies?
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Rhetorica: How to Do Ethos Good
A person is credible if they not only possess, but display honesty, courage, and clarity. How do we do that?
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Rhetorica: The Rhetorical Appeals
As there are three temporal contexts for rhetoric, so there are three appeals it can make to a man: those to credibility, intelligence, and humanity.
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Rhetorica: A Speech in Time Saves Nine
Persuasion aims at action, and action takes place in time. It follows that rhetoric looks in three directions: past, present, and future.
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Rhetorica: Of the Same Clay
What is essential to argument is not that both sides prove everything they say, but only that they begin from premises both parties accept.
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Rhetorica: The Weakness of Magnanimity
An essential part of the secret of magnanimity is, knowledge is not a zero-sum game.
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Rhetorica: The Practice of Magnanimity
“Most people are normal” does not sound controversial, or even worth saying; but it is surprisingly hard, and worthwhile, to really believe.
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Rhetorica: The Discipline of Largesse
The fourth moral principle underlying rhetoric, and the first that demands a social context, is the rule of magnanimity; so what’s that?
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Rhetorica: The Little Trinity
Three mental virtues come before all others. Without them, no further thought is possible.
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