Rhetoric in Classical Education
Three divisions of education in Athens
Industrial Arts
Three divisions of education in Athens Industrial Arts Productive Arts
Three divisions of education in Athens Industrial Arts Productive Arts Liberal Arts
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education:
What knowledge must one have to be fully human?
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education: What knowledge must one have to be fully human? -or-
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education: What knowledge must one have to be fully human? -or- What is the knowledge most worth having?
It’s about
Excellence!
John Henry Cardinal Newman
the man who has learned to think and to reason and to compare and to discriminate and to analyze, who has refined his taste, and formed his judgment, and sharpened his mental vision, will not indeed at once be a lawyer, or a pleader, or an orator, or a statesman, or a physician,... but he will be placed in that state of intellect in which he can take up any one of the sciences or callings I have referred to, or any other for which he has a taste or special talent, with an ease, a grace, a versatility, and a success, to which another is a stranger....
John Henry Cardinal Newman I say that a cultivated intellect, because it is a good in itself, brings with it a power and a grace to every work and occupation which it undertakes, and enables us to be more useful, and to a greater number (The Idea of the University. U Notre Dame Press,1982, pp. 124 & 6).
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts
Trivium
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium Grammar
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium Grammar Dialectic
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium Grammar Dialectic Rhetoric
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium GrammarAstronomy Dialectic Rhetoric
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium GrammarAstronomy DialecticGeometry Rhetoric
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium GrammarAstronomy DialecticGeometry RhetoricArithmetic
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts TriviumQuadrivium GrammarAstronomy DialecticGeometry RhetoricArithmetic Music
The Art of Rhetoric
Techne "The kind of knowledge possessed by an expert maker; it gives him a clear conception of the why and wherefore, the how and the with what of the making process and enables him, through the capacity to offer a rational account of it, to preside over his activity with secure mastery" (1993, p. 9).
Art vs. Intuition
To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it.
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it. 2.Break it into parts
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it. 2.Break it into parts 3.Study the parts
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it. 2.Break it into parts 3.Study the parts
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it. 2.Break it into parts 3.Study the parts “Laying a theoretical foundation”
Art vs. Intuition To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must: 1.Define it. 2.Break it into parts 3.Study the parts 4.Practice
Hexis
Habit; habitude
Hexis Second nature!
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Rhetoric
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology Politics
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology Politics Law
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology Politics Law Poetics
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology Politics Law Poetics Religion
The Most Humane of the Humanities Rhetoric Dialectic Ethics Psychology Politics Law Poetics Religion History
rhetoric Aristotle defines rhetoric
rhetoric Aristotle defines rhetoric as
"The faculty of discovering in any given case the available means of persuasion."
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric
Artistic & Inartistic Proofs
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Artistic & Inartistic Proofs Ethos
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Artistic & Inartistic Proofs Ethos Pathos
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Artistic & Inartistic Proofs Ethos Pathos Logos
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Species of rhetoric
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Species of rhetoric Forensic
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Species of rhetoric Forensic Deliberative
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Species of rhetoric Forensic Deliberative Epideictic
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Topoi
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Topoi Common topics
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Topoi Common topics
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Topoi Common topics Special topics
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Aristotle’s aim:
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Aristotle’s aim: That his students “gain skill in enthymemes”
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Aristotle’s aim: That his students have a well supplied storehouse of materials with which to build persuasive arguments!
Rhetoric Aristotle on Rhetoric Visit the “Speech Builders Emporium”!!
The Five Classical Canons
Invention
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery ornamentation
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery ornamentation orchestration
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery vocal
The Five Classical Canons Invention Disposition Style Memory Delivery vocal physical
Rhetoric and Human Excellence
Rhetoric and Ethics
in rhetorical reason Phronesis in rhetorical reason
Rhetoric and Dialectic
Rhetoric and Imagination
Rhetoric is not mere techne...
Classical rhetoric, in its most ethical and ancient manifestation, is a way of discussing the truth with one's fellows in a manner that respects their freedom and dignity, and attempts to move them toward the Good.