RHETOR 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Heteroglossia, Callicles, Epideictic
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Confessions: more than an autobiography, but a hymn, a declaration/ confession of faith, portrait of man struggling with the limits of humanity (human adequacy) Augustine developed an intimate relationship with christianity from an early date. 2 ways of reading augustine (1) striving for perfection (2) striving but not achieving (teleological vs. existential) Traveled to milan and appointed to imperial chair of rhetoric; unde father"s influence, converted to rhetoric. Augustine needed to develop a christian eloquence and a christian rhetoric. Augustine could not help but by a polygot (multiple languages) and heterogot. Works written in latin, but never simply in biblical or classical latin. Question: is god in him? is he in god? how does he contain the fundamental. Humility: no limit to people you can convert and no limit to people on the verge of (speaking the language of someone else) whenever writing or speaking (11 on christian teaching) flood of eloquence .
