The Philosophy of RhetoricSIU Press, 01/03/1988 - 501 من الصفحات Here, after a quarter century of additional study and reflection, Bitzer presents a new critical edition of George Campbell’s classic. Bitzer provides a more complete review and assessment of Campbell’s work, giving particular emphasis to Campbell’s theological views, which he demonstrates played an important part in Campbell’s overall view of reasoning, feeling, and moral and religious truth. The Rhetoric is widely regarded as the most important statement of a theory of rhetoric produced in the 18th century. Its importance lies, in part, in the fact that the theory is informed by the leading assumptions and themes of the Scottish Enlightenment—the prevailing empiricism, the theory of the association of ideas, the effort to explain natural phenomena by reference to principles and processes of human nature. Campbell’s work engages such themes in an attempt to formulate a universal theory of human communication. Campbell attempts to develop his theory by discovering deep principles in human nature that account for all instances and kinds of human communication. He seeks to derive all communication principles and processes empirically. In addition, all statements in discourse that have to do with matters of fact and human affairs are likewise to be empirically derived. Thus, his theory of rhetoric is vastly wider than, and different from, such classical theories as those proposed by Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, whose theories focused on discourse related to civic affairs. Bitzer shows that, by attempting to elaborate a general theory of rhetoric through empirical procedures, Campbell’s project reveals the limitations of his method. He cannot ground all statements empirically and it is at this point that his theological position comes into play. Inspection of his religious views shows that God’s design of human nature, and God’s revelations to humankind, make moral and spiritual truths known and quite secure to human beings, although not empirically. |
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EDITORS INTRODUCTION | vii |
EDITIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC | liii |
PREFACE | lxiii |
INTRODUCTION xlv | lxix |
BOOK I | 1 |
Of Wit Humour and Ridicule | 8 |
The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended | 27 |
of the different Sources of Evidence and | 35 |
The nature and use of Verbal Criticism with | 151 |
Of Grammatical Purity | 169 |
Some grammatical doubts in regard to English | 204 |
Of the qualities of Style strictly Rhetorical | 214 |
What is the Cause that Nonsense so often escapes | 256 |
The extensive Usefulness of Perspicuity | 273 |
BOOK III | 285 |
Of Vivacity as depending on the number of | 333 |
of the Nature and Use of the scholastic | 61 |
of the Consideration which the Speaker ought | 71 |
of the consideration which the Speaker ought | 95 |
of the cause of that pleasure which we receive | 112 |
BOOK II | 139 |
Of Vivacity as depending on the arrangement | 353 |
of the Connectives employed in combining | 384 |
Of the Connectives employed in combining | 403 |
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Aberdeen adjective admit adverb ambiguity antonomasia appear argument beauty Campbell Campbell's catachresis cause circumstances clause common conjunction connexion connexive consequently considered contrary critics David Hume degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example experience expression former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras human nature ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language latter manner Marischal College meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis perly person perspicuity philosophical phrases pleonasm poet preceding preposition present preterite principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect rhetoric Richard Whately ridicule sense sensible sentence sentiment serve signify solecism sometimes sound speak speaker species Spect style syllables syllogism synecdoche term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers