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 xxiv
... Observations on Man (1749)?“ Hume—whose Treatise of Human Nature and other works influenced numerous theorists ... observed that in fact we do not know, because Campbell does not tell us, exactly what comprises the established data ...
... Observations on Man (1749)?“ Hume—whose Treatise of Human Nature and other works influenced numerous theorists ... observed that in fact we do not know, because Campbell does not tell us, exactly what comprises the established data ...
الصفحة xxvi
... observation and experience. If only observation and experience are necessary, how then do we empirically choose between two incompatible classifications when both are authorized by experience? How do we empirically obtain a criterion of ...
... observation and experience. If only observation and experience are necessary, how then do we empirically choose between two incompatible classifications when both are authorized by experience? How do we empirically obtain a criterion of ...
الصفحة xxviii
... observed elsewhere in this essay, Campbell could not embrace the new empiricism and at the same time provide a classical theory of invention. He chose to regard empirical procedures as the inventional and investigative route appropriate ...
... observed elsewhere in this essay, Campbell could not embrace the new empiricism and at the same time provide a classical theory of invention. He chose to regard empirical procedures as the inventional and investigative route appropriate ...
الصفحة xxix
... observation and experience.38 The Basis of Empiricism. Campbell's empirical philosophy was shaped by his response to ... observation of particulars, which are mental entities, and by inference from particulars via the natural process of ...
... observation and experience.38 The Basis of Empiricism. Campbell's empirical philosophy was shaped by his response to ... observation of particulars, which are mental entities, and by inference from particulars via the natural process of ...
الصفحة xxxi
... observed objects. This third class, extremely broad, includes ideas of golden cities and centaurs—unreal things never observed—as well as all judgments about the real existence of things not presently sensed or remembered. All men are ...
... observed objects. This third class, extremely broad, includes ideas of golden cities and centaurs—unreal things never observed—as well as all judgments about the real existence of things not presently sensed or remembered. All men are ...
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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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