Rhetoric in Classical Education

1
Rhetoric in Classical Education
2
Three divisions of educationin Athens
3
Three divisions of educationin Athens

• Industrial Arts

4
Three divisions of educationin Athens

• Industrial Arts Productive Arts

5
Three divisions of educationin Athens

• Industrial Arts Productive Arts Liberal Arts

6
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education
7
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education

• What knowledge must one have to be fully human?

8
The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education

• What knowledge must one have to be fully human?
• -or-

9
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?

10

• Its about

11

• Its about
• Excellence!

12
John Henry Cardinal Newman
13
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. . . .

14
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).

15
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts
16
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium

17
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium

18
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar

19
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar
• Dialectic

20
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar
• Dialectic
• Rhetoric

21
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar Astronomy
• Dialectic
• Rhetoric

22
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar Astronomy
• Dialectic Geometry
• Rhetoric

23
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar Astronomy
• Dialectic Geometry
• Rhetoric Arithmetic

24
The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

• Trivium Quadrivium
• Grammar Astronomy
• Dialectic Geometry
• Rhetoric Arithmetic
• Music

25
The Art of Rhetoric
26
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).

27
Art vs. Intuition
28
Art vs. Intuition

• To master any body of knowledge as an art, one
  must

29
Art vs. Intuition

• To master any body of knowledge as an art, one
  must
• Define it.

30
Art vs. Intuition

• To master any body of knowledge as an art, one
  must
• Define it.
• Break it into parts

31
Art vs. Intuition

• To master any body of knowledge as an art, one
  must
• Define it.
• Break it into parts
• Study the parts

32
Art vs. Intuition

• To master any body of knowledge as an art, one
  must
• Define it.
• Break it into parts
• Study the parts
• Practice

33
Hexis
34
Hexis

• Habit habitude

35
Hexis

• Second nature!

36
The Most Humane of the Humanities
37
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Rhetoric
38
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Rhetoric
39
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Rhetoric
40
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Psychology
Rhetoric
41
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
42
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Law
43
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Law
Poetics
44
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Law
Religion
Poetics
45
The Most Humane of the Humanities
Dialectic
Ethics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Law
History
Religion
Poetics
46
Aristotle defines rhetoric
47
Aristotle defines rhetoricas
48
Aristotle defines rhetoricas

• "The faculty of discovering in any given case the
  available means of persuasion."

49
Aristotle on Rhetoric
50
Aristotle on Rhetoric
51
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Artistic Inartistic Proofs

52
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Artistic Inartistic Proofs
• Ethos

53
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Artistic Inartistic Proofs
• Ethos
• Pathos

54
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Artistic Inartistic Proofs
• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

55
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Species of rhetoric

56
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Species of rhetoric
• Forensic

57
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Species of rhetoric
• Forensic
• Deliberative

58
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Species of rhetoric
• Forensic
• Deliberative
• Epideictic

59
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Topoi

60
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Topoi
• Common topics

61
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Topoi
• Common topics
• Special topics

62
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Aristotles aim

63
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Aristotles aim
• That his students gain skill in enthymemes

64
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Aristotles aim
• That his students have a well supplied storehouse
  of materials with which to build
• persuasive arguments!

65
Aristotle on Rhetoric

• Visit the Speech Builders Emporium!!
• http//www2/dsu.nodak.edu/users/jtallmon/emporium.
  htm

66
The Five Classical Canons
67
The Five Classical Canons

• Invention

68
The Five Classical Canons

• Invention
• Disposition

69
The Five Classical Canons

• Invention
• Disposition
• Style

70
The Five Classical Canons

• Invention
• Disposition
• Style
• Memory

71
The Five Classical Canons

• Invention
• Disposition
• Style
• Memory
• Delivery

72
Rhetoric and Human Excellence
73
Rhetoric and Ethics
74
Phronesis in rhetorical reason
75
Rhetoric and Dialectic
76
Rhetoric and Imagination
77
Rhetoric is not mere techne . . .
78
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.
79
http//www2.dsu.nodak/users/jtallmon/ring.htm