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One of three “modes of persuasion” that “stirs the emotions of an audience”
A strategy often connected to the Sophists that “seizes the proper moment”
One of Aristotle’s three forms, the end of which is to honor or dishonor its subject
The Sophists were united in the need to develop this quality in their students
Cicero retrieved Aristotle’s notion of judgment as the ultimate quality of this Latin term
“<And> further, if a tool is corroded or blunted or broken, this is good for the blacksmith but bad for everyone else. And certainly if a pot gets smashed, this is good for the potters, but bad for everyone else. And if shoes are worn out and ripped apart, this is good for the cobbler but bad for everyone else.”
“For speech constrained the soul, persuading it which it persuaded, both to believe the things said and to approve the things done.”
"A knowledge of a vast number of things is necessary, without, which volubility of words is empty and ridiculous; speech itself is to be formed, not merely by choice, but by careful construction of words; and all the emotions of the mind, which nature has given to man, must be intimately known. . .To this must be added a certain portion of grace and wit, learning worthy of a well-bred man, and quickness and brevity in replying as well as attacking, accompanied with a refined decorum and urbanity."
But, it is further urged, he does not know whether the cause which he advocates has truth on its side; nor, I answer, does the physician know whether the patient, who says that he has the headache, really has it, yet he will treat him on the assumption that his assertion is true, and medicine will surely be allowed to be an art. Need I add that oratory does not always purpose to say what is true, but does always purpose to say what is like truth? But the orator must know whether what he says is like truth or not.
“the whole of which rhetoric is a part is not an art at all, but the habit of a bold and ready wit, which knows how to manage mankind : this habit I sum up under the word “flattery” ; and it appears to me to have many other parts, one of which is cookery, which may seem to be an art, but, as I maintain, is only an experience or routine and not an art”
“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies.”
“. . .music's capacity to transmit dispositions falls outside of the category of reasoned, conscious learning, as rhythms and modes invade the soul, and at times, excite the body to movement.”
“If it were my desire that a person totally illiterate should be instructed in the art of speaking, I would willingly send him to these perpetual workers at the same employment, who hammer day and night on the same anvil, and who would put his literary food into his mouth, in the smallest pieces, minced as fine as possible, as nurses put theirs into the mouths of children. But if he were one who had had a liberal education, and some degree of practice, and seemed to have some acuteness of genius, I would instantly conduct him, not where a little brook of water was confined by itself, but to the source whence a whole flood gushed forth…"
“. . .for, in general, those bare treatises on art, through too much affectation of subtlety, break and cut down whatever is noble in eloquence, drink up as it were all the blood of thought, and lay bare the bones, which, while they ought to exist and to be united by their ligaments, ought still to be covered with flesh.”
This statesman, general and orator ruled Athens during its golden age; famous for his Funeral Oration.
Developed the concepts of constraints, exigence, and audience
Claimed that only relative truth exists because humans are incapable of knowing absolute truth. Yet they have no choice but to become “the measure of all things”
Identified all the guests of a tragic banquet based on where they were seated
This teacher and his student sued each other over tuition owed
“the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”
“…on most subjects most men take opinion as counselor to their soul, but since opinion is slippery and insecure it casts those employing it into slippery and insecure successes.”
“…oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment”
“The first and chief difference of opinion on the subject is that some think it possible even for bad men to have the name of orators, while others (to whose opinion I attach myself) maintain that the name and the art of which we are speaking can be conceded only to good men.”
