The Philosophy of RhetoricSIU Press, 1.3.1988 - 504 sivua Here, after a quarter century of additional study and reflection, Bitzer presents a new critical edition of George Campbell’s classic. Bitzer provides a more complete review and assessment of Campbell’s work, giving particular emphasis to Campbell’s theological views, which he demonstrates played an important part in Campbell’s overall view of reasoning, feeling, and moral and religious truth. The Rhetoric is widely regarded as the most important statement of a theory of rhetoric produced in the 18th century. Its importance lies, in part, in the fact that the theory is informed by the leading assumptions and themes of the Scottish Enlightenment—the prevailing empiricism, the theory of the association of ideas, the effort to explain natural phenomena by reference to principles and processes of human nature. Campbell’s work engages such themes in an attempt to formulate a universal theory of human communication. Campbell attempts to develop his theory by discovering deep principles in human nature that account for all instances and kinds of human communication. He seeks to derive all communication principles and processes empirically. In addition, all statements in discourse that have to do with matters of fact and human affairs are likewise to be empirically derived. Thus, his theory of rhetoric is vastly wider than, and different from, such classical theories as those proposed by Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, whose theories focused on discourse related to civic affairs. Bitzer shows that, by attempting to elaborate a general theory of rhetoric through empirical procedures, Campbell’s project reveals the limitations of his method. He cannot ground all statements empirically and it is at this point that his theological position comes into play. Inspection of his religious views shows that God’s design of human nature, and God’s revelations to humankind, make moral and spiritual truths known and quite secure to human beings, although not empirically. |
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Sivu xxv
... necessary to explain and give coherence to this universal art can be found in human nature. This assumption involves important implications: the first is that the fundamental principles and processes of rhetoric have no other foundation ...
... necessary to explain and give coherence to this universal art can be found in human nature. This assumption involves important implications: the first is that the fundamental principles and processes of rhetoric have no other foundation ...
Sivu xxvi
... necessary theory-building operations as specification of categories, definition of terms, and formulation of prescriptions and criteria, if legitimate, must be reducible to observation and experience. If only observation and experience ...
... necessary theory-building operations as specification of categories, definition of terms, and formulation of prescriptions and criteria, if legitimate, must be reducible to observation and experience. If only observation and experience ...
Sivu xxxvii
... necessary relations among abstract ideas. ' The second, consciousness, is the apprehension of data that we sense and remember—for example, the present awareness of a certain configuration of color (the book on my desk), the present ...
... necessary relations among abstract ideas. ' The second, consciousness, is the apprehension of data that we sense and remember—for example, the present awareness of a certain configuration of color (the book on my desk), the present ...
Sivu xxxviii
... necessary implications, chiefly in mathematics and geometry. Demonstration does not draw conclusions about the world of fact. The process of experience, and the several categories of reasoning based on it, produces probable inferences ...
... necessary implications, chiefly in mathematics and geometry. Demonstration does not draw conclusions about the world of fact. The process of experience, and the several categories of reasoning based on it, produces probable inferences ...
Sivu xliii
... necessary to influence the will; that is, we cannot elect to act in accord with a rule or principle when no degree of motivational force is present. Conscious selection and initiation of actions therefore cannot be disinterested, for to ...
... necessary to influence the will; that is, we cannot elect to act in accord with a rule or principle when no degree of motivational force is present. Conscious selection and initiation of actions therefore cannot be disinterested, for to ...
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liii | |
Corrections and Additions | lvii |
Preface | lxv |
Introduction | lxix |
Book I The Nature and Foundaitons of Elequence | 1 |
Book II The Foundations and Essential Properties of Elocution | 139 |
Book III The Discriminating Properties of Elocution | 285 |
Index | 417 |
Author Bio | 424 |
Back Cover | 425 |
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