A sourcebook for classical rhetoric / John Tomarchio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomarchio, John, author.

Series:

Sourcebooks for liberal arts and sciences.

Sourcebooks for Liberal Arts and Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient--Sources.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic Education Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of human speech because they clarify the terms and stakes of perennial questions thinking human beings ask themselves about persuasive speaking. By crystallizing viable claims about the nature of what we confront in politics and society--live claims for us to confront in our own, with the stakes of that confrontation being live as well--they originate a dialectic with one another and with us their readers...The selections of this sourcebook have been arranged in three sequences. The first two sequences comprise philosophical dialogues on the ends of rhetoric. Selections from Plato's Gorgias, Phaedrus, and Apology examine the rhetorician or teacher of rhetoric, and then Cicero's De oratore offers us a dialectic among practitioners about its practice. The philosophical dialogues on the art's intended ends and causative effects provide the theoretical and ethical context for examining its means. These philosophical dialogues are thus propaedeutic to the third sequence, which focuses on the art itself with selections from Aristotle's treatise On Rhetoric, paired with orations from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War." -- Publisher description

Contents:

Plato / De Rhetore : selections from Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Apology

Cicero / De Oratore : selections from Book I, II, and III

Aristotle / De Rhetorica : Overview of the Aristotelian organon by Thomas Aquinas ; On definition (Topics, Book I) ; On syllogism (Prior Analytics, Book I) ; On dialectics (Topics, Book VIII)

Aristotle / On Rhetoric : selections from Book I (Dialectic and Rhetoric ; Political Oratory) ; and Book II (Example & Enthymeme ; Proofs ; Anger & Calmness ; Friendship & Enmity ; Pity & Indignation ; On Types of Character).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781949822434

OCLC:

1506346919