ENGL101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Techne, Diplopia, Scientific Method
29 Oct 2018
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Rhetoric concerns the gravest matters: does(cid:374)"t deal (cid:449)ith the highest (cid:373)atter (cid:271)ut the (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t o(cid:374)es, there are three domains of rhetorical practice in the social spheres in greece and rome. Legal or forensic, accusing or defending a past act: deliberative, political, to persuade for or against a future course of action, epideictic, designed for display and ceremony, often involving praise of blame, political aim to solidify democratic ideologies. Linkage between rhetoric and knowledge: both used to fashion arguments, art of constructing plausible, persuasive arguments, techne: artistic (artificial) proof and persuasion, not fake arguments but one put together as a form of art. In law it would be the many arguments that can be made instead of the evidence: probable knowledge. Overview: counterpart (antistrophos) of dialectic/logic, universal faculty, systemic art of producing arguments, discovery, not persuasion, practical art of attack and defense, produces belief, provides opposites: scientific method, ethos, pathos, logos.
