Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing about Doing

Author(s):  
Christian Kock ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Garsten

In his account of how each of us deliberates about what to do, Aristotle remarks that we do not always trust ourselves on important matters and so sometimes take counsel from others. Taking counsel from others is, in some ways, merely an expansion of the internal activity of deliberation; the suggestions come from other people rather than from our ownminds, but the judgment about them remains our own. In other ways, however, taking counsel is quite different from deliberating with oneself. These differences are the subject matter of the art of rhetoric, as Aristotle understands it. The paper compares the political relationship at work in deliberative rhetoric with slavery, which collapses the separateness of persons, and with friendship, which preserves it. And suggests that the importance of anger in Aristotle’s treatment of rhetoric can be understood as a reflection on the implications of human separateness.


2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen McClish

This study examines the rhetorical practice of James Forten, an African American activist of the early republic. Focusing on four texts written between 1800 and 1832 for white audiences and considering Forten's efforts to align white readers with the plight of both free and enslaved American blacks, I explore pathos (particularly as conceived by eighteenth-century Scottish rhetoricians), the suppliant ethos, appeals based on Pennsylvania and U.S. legal and political traditions, and arguments addressing the practical concerns of the audience. Through such analysis, I demonstrate Forten's pioneering role in the development of African American deliberative rhetoric.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Bas van Os

The fragmented nature of the Nag Hammadi treatise known as The Testimony of Truth (nhc ix,3) has seriously impeded our interpretation of this remarkable text, the only Nag Hammadi text in which opposing Gnostic Christian groups are identified by name. Nevertheless, in the past decade, this treatise has become an important reference to the early Christian debate about martyrdom. The question should be asked, however, whether the passages cited by scholars have been interpreted correctly, if we have not first understood the rhetorical strategy of the author and the Sitz im Leben of the text. As the speaker advises an audience seeking after the truth, this text is best read as deliberative speech, despite its many lacunae. Viewing the text rhetorically allows us to reconstruct the message of the text, and interpret its arguments accordingly. When this is done, it becomes clear that the author does not try to persuade his audience with respect to martyrdom, but rather with respect to the passions of the soul that could prevent the soul’s salvation. The Sitz im Leben of the text is the shared discussion among Christians in general and Gnostic Christians about the efficacy of testimony and baptism for salvation, and the acceptability of sex and procreation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Ali Fikry

<p><em>Abstrak </em>– <strong>Penelitian ini membahas tentang </strong><strong>tentang retorika persuasif dalam pidato Ismail Haniyah untuk umat Islam Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menemukan dan menjelaskan konsep retorika persuasif yang ada pada pidato tersebut. Analisis yang digunakan adalah teori retorika persuasif perspektif Aristoteles. Dalam teori ini terdapat penjelasan terkait retorika yang memiliki tiga jenis, yakni retorika forensik, demonstratif, dan Deliberatif. Prinsip teori ini tercermin dalam konsep <em>The Five Canon of Rhetoric, </em>panduan sekaligus ketentuan yang harus ada dalam pidato persuasif. Kelima ketentuan tersebut berkaitan dengan <em>Inventio/Discovery</em> yang berarti penemuan, <em>Dispositio/Arrangement</em> yang berarti penyusunan,<em> Elocutio/Style</em> yang berarti gaya, <em>Pronuntiatio/Delivery</em> yang berarti penyampaian, dan <em>Memoria/Memory</em> yang berarti mengingat. Jenis penelitian ini termasuk dalam kategori kualitatif-deskriptif dengan menggunakan paradigma interpretatif. Teknik yang digunakan dalam pengumpulan data adalah tonton, simak, dan catat. Seluruh data yang didapat kemudian dianalisis menggunakan model Miles Huberman, yakni pengumpulan data, reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan/verifikasi. Penelitian ini mendapatkan hasil berupa 19 temuan data yang berkaitan dengan retorika persuasif dalam pidato Ismail Haniyah untuk umat Islam Idonesia. Dari seluruh data, 6 di antaranya berkaitan dengan jenis reotika persuasif yang mencakup keseluruhan jenis. Sedangkan 13 sisanya berkaitan dengan konsep <em>Five Canon of Rhetoric</em> berdasarkan perspektif Aristoteles.</strong></p><p><em>Abstract – </em><strong>This study discusses persuasive rhetoric in Ismail Haniyah's speech to Indonesian Muslims. The purpose of this study is to find and explain the concept of persuasive rhetoric in the speech. The analysis used is the theory of persuasive rhetoric from Aristotle's perspective. In this theory, there are explanations related to the rhetoric that have three types, namely forensic, demonstrative, and Deliberative rhetoric. The principle of this theory is reflected in the concept of The Five Canon of Rhetoric, a guide as well as a provision that must be present in a persuasive speech. The five provisions are related to <em>Inventio</em> (Discovery), <em>Dispositio</em> (Arrangement), <em>Elocutio</em> (Style), <em>Pronuntiatio</em> (Delivery), and <em>Memoria</em> (Memory). This type of research is included in the qualitative-descriptive category using interpretive paradigms. The techniques used in data collection are watching, listening, and taking notes. All data obtained were then analyzed using the Miles Huberman model, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. This study obtained results in the form of 19 data findings related to persuasive rhetoric in Ismail Haniyah's speech to Indonesian Muslims. Of all the data, 6 of them relate to the type of persuasive rationale which includes all types. While the remaining 13 are related to the concept of the Five Canon of Rhetoric based on Aristotle's perspective.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords -</em></strong><em>Five Canon of Rhetoric</em>, <em>Palestine, persuasive rhetoric, speech<strong></strong></em></p>


Author(s):  
Bård Eirik Hallesby Norheim ◽  
Joar Haga

When a leader leaves office, the leader becomes impotent, divested of power. This makes the actual moment of farewell a particularly interesting case study in leadership, as the farewell moment marks the transition of power from one leader to another. Many leaders use the point of departure as an opportunity to articulate the legacy of the institution they leave behind. This article offers a rhetorical and theological analysis of the farewell sermon delivered by former presiding bishop of the Church of Norway, Helga Haugland Byfuglien in January 2020, and a shorter, comparative analysis of the equivalent farewell sermon of the former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Anders Wejryd (2014). The article analyses how Byfuglien and Wejryd conceptualize the legacy of the church with the use of epideictic and deliberative rhetoric (rhetorical analysis) and discuss what kind of legacy (theological analysis and discussion) they promote. The article argues that both Byfuglien and Wejryd use the farewell sermon as a rhetorical opportunity to articulate the church`s legacy for the future, although their own formal power to execute that legacy is coming to an end. Byfuglien appeals to a diaconal vision of the church`s legacy, with a tendency to emphasize the church`s welcoming and inclusive character. Wejryd addresses the current ecclesiological situation in more detail. By assessing the church`s numerical decline and changed societal status as a crisis, he mainly appeals to the church`s missional legacy. The article concludes that the farewell sermons of both Byfuglien and Wejryd may be interpreted as a sort of inheritance dispute, or better heritage dispute: In their farewell sermons, the departing bishops present their last(ing) act of leadership, appealing to the audience to commit to a particular vision of the church`'s legacy.


1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Colclough

Abstract: The understanding of free speech was, from fifth century Athens onwards, rhetorically coloured, and Greek uses of parrhesia and the definitions of licentia later set out in Roman handbooks are highly influential to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English works on rhetoric and political advice. Consequently, discussions of liberty of speech in Elizabethan and Jacobean England can often be understood best if read with an eye to the conditions of deliberative rhetoric. Authors of rhetorical works in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were engaged in a complicated relationship of negotiation with sometimes apparentiy contradictory traditions when they defined parrhesia. Both traditions were used by speakers and writers concerned find ways of offering frank counsel to their superiors in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.


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