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Classical Rhetoric<br />

Martin Cothran<br />

Instructor


Forensic rhetoric<br />

Accusation and defense


Three points Aristotle proposes to<br />

ascertain<br />

Nature and number of incentives for<br />

wrongdoing<br />

State of mind of wrongdoers<br />

Kind of persons who are wronged and<br />

their condition


Wrongdoing<br />

Injury voluntarily inflicted contrary<br />

to law


Law<br />

Special<br />

General


Meanness<br />

Wrongs concerning money


Profligacy<br />

Matters of physical pleasure


Effeminacy<br />

Matters of comfort


Cowardice<br />

Where danger is concerned


Ambition<br />

Where honor is concerned


Quick-temperedness<br />

From anger


Love of victory<br />

Wrongs done for the sake of victory


Embitteredness<br />

Wrongs done for the sake of revenge


Stupidity<br />

Wrongs done because of<br />

misunderstanding of right and wrong


Shamelessness<br />

Wrongs committed because he<br />

doesn’t care what people think of<br />

him


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary<br />

CHANCE<br />

Necessity


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary<br />

CHANCE<br />

Necessity<br />

COMPULSION<br />

NATURE


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary<br />

HABIT<br />

Impulse<br />

CHANCE<br />

Necessity<br />

COMPULSION<br />

NATURE


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary<br />

HABIT<br />

Impulse<br />

CHANCE<br />

Necessity<br />

RATIONAL IMPULSE<br />

Irrational Impulse<br />

COMPULSION<br />

NATURE


Human Actions<br />

Voluntary<br />

Involuntary<br />

HABIT<br />

Impulse<br />

CHANCE<br />

Necessity<br />

RATIONAL IMPULSE<br />

Irrational Impulse<br />

COMPULSION<br />

NATURE<br />

ANGER<br />

DESIRE


3 Reasons men do wrong<br />

They suppose it can be done<br />

They suppose they will not be found<br />

out<br />

They suppose that if they are found<br />

out, they will not be punished


Division of Law<br />

General laws of nature<br />

Particular laws of groups


Division of Law<br />

General laws of nature<br />

Particular laws of groups


Division of Actions<br />

Actions affecting the whole<br />

community<br />

Actions affecting only one member


Criteria for harm<br />

Victim just suffer actual harm<br />

Victim must suffer wrong against his<br />

will


Two kinds of natural law<br />

What comes from excess of virtue<br />

and vice<br />

What comes from an omission of<br />

special, written law


Traditional Logic Review VII-1<br />

What comes from excess of virtue<br />

and vice<br />

What comes from an omission of<br />

special, written law


Mode<br />

of Persuasion<br />

Audience<br />

of Speech<br />

Time<br />

Concerned<br />

With<br />

Aim of Speech End of Speech What The<br />

Mode of<br />

Persuasion<br />

Depends On<br />

What Speaker<br />

Must Be Able<br />

to Do<br />

or Understand<br />

Political<br />

Forensic<br />

Ceremonial


tmesis


hyperbaton


anastrophe


Forensic (legal) rhetoric


classification and division

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