The Philosophy of RhetoricSIU Press, 01/03/1988 - 504 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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الصفحة x
... mind or of the material world; all observations and experiments that may furnish materials for such induction; the examination of false schemes of philosophy and false methods of philosophizing; the subserviency of philosophy to arts ...
... mind or of the material world; all observations and experiments that may furnish materials for such induction; the examination of false schemes of philosophy and false methods of philosophizing; the subserviency of philosophy to arts ...
الصفحة xx
... mind; that is, he deduces the types from his psychological theory, confident that the several types do indeed fit actual discourses. Because the four principal functions of mind are understanding, imagination, emotion, and will, there ...
... mind; that is, he deduces the types from his psychological theory, confident that the several types do indeed fit actual discourses. Because the four principal functions of mind are understanding, imagination, emotion, and will, there ...
الصفحة xxi
... mind and its functions that is not sustained consistently in the Rhetoric. In his first chapter, he speaks as if the mind were divided into distinct faculties or functions: some discourses are “addressed” to the understanding, others to ...
... mind and its functions that is not sustained consistently in the Rhetoric. In his first chapter, he speaks as if the mind were divided into distinct faculties or functions: some discourses are “addressed” to the understanding, others to ...
الصفحة xxiii
... mind and its contents and operations; the leading explanatory principles of rhetoric are therefore principles of mind. His conceptions of the union of rhetoric and human nature and of the central task of the philosopher of rhetoric are ...
... mind and its contents and operations; the leading explanatory principles of rhetoric are therefore principles of mind. His conceptions of the union of rhetoric and human nature and of the central task of the philosopher of rhetoric are ...
الصفحة xxv
... mind and its operations, the grounds of decision and action, the processes of observation and inference, and the like. Two critical assumptions are apparent in Campbell's project. First, he assumed that a general theory of rhetoric (a ...
... mind and its operations, the grounds of decision and action, the processes of observation and inference, and the like. Two critical assumptions are apparent in Campbell's project. First, he assumed that a general theory of rhetoric (a ...
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Corrections and Additions | lvii |
Preface | lxv |
Introduction | lxix |
Book I The Nature and Foundaitons of Elequence | 1 |
Book II The Foundations and Essential Properties of Elocution | 139 |
Book III The Discriminating Properties of Elocution | 285 |
Index | 417 |
Author Bio | 424 |
Back Cover | 425 |
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