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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... Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the “Institutio oratoria.” Edited by James J. Murphy. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Adam Smith. Edited with an Introduction by John M. Lothian. Elements of ...
... Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the “Institutio oratoria.” Edited by James J. Murphy. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Adam Smith. Edited with an Introduction by John M. Lothian. Elements of ...
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... The different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns, compared, with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence vii liii lvii lxiii xlv 27 32 35 61 71 95 98 XI III IV VI VII VIII IX III IV Of Contents.
... The different kinds of public speaking in use among the moderns, compared, with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence vii liii lvii lxiii xlv 27 32 35 61 71 95 98 XI III IV VI VII VIII IX III IV Of Contents.
Sivu vii
... speaking and composing, but is actually what its title announces, a philosophy of rhetoric in the broad sense. All students of the theories and arts of language should find it provocative and fruitful both as a treatment of various ...
... speaking and composing, but is actually what its title announces, a philosophy of rhetoric in the broad sense. All students of the theories and arts of language should find it provocative and fruitful both as a treatment of various ...
Sivu xviii
... speaking truth; and the least deviation from it was accompanied with the strongest marks of his disapprobation. (xlvii) ... speak to His creatures; and that the most important moral and factual truths are vouchsafed by God. Campbell held ...
... speaking truth; and the least deviation from it was accompanied with the strongest marks of his disapprobation. (xlvii) ... speak to His creatures; and that the most important moral and factual truths are vouchsafed by God. Campbell held ...
Sivu xxi
... Speaking in Use Among the Moderns Compared, with a View to Their Difi'erent Advantages in Respect of Eloquence.” Here he considers three types—orations 0f the court, of the senate, and of the pulpit— according to their special ...
... Speaking in Use Among the Moderns Compared, with a View to Their Difi'erent Advantages in Respect of Eloquence.” Here he considers three types—orations 0f the court, of the senate, and of the pulpit— according to their special ...
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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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