(Originally written January 5, 2007 in Book 12)
Class Notes
Four most important in pathos
1) Fortune
2) Age
3) Emotions
4) ?
Generalizations
- Use to stir emotions
- Starting point for rhetoric
- Positive spin on the generalization
- Appeal to positive aspects of generalization
- Help with lexis/terms
- React to evidence
Off Topic
- The body of man and the soul of man are corrupted and to be damned.
- The soul of fallen angels are corrupted and damned, but they have no body.
- The soul of man is redeemable because of the wages of of sin can be paid by death. Thus, the body dies (and the unredeemed soul death too) but the redeemed soul does not pass away.
-Fallen angels must pay the wages of sin (death) but since they have no body it is their soul which must die.
-This is why humans are redeemable post-sin, but fallen Angels and pure-soul beings are not.
Three things important to Topoi
1) Possible/Impossible
2) Post and Future Fact
3) Magnitude
Topoi:
1) From Opposites
2) From Grammatical Form
3) From Correlatives
4) From More and the Less
5) From looking at the time
6) From turning the argument on the opposed
7) From definition
8) From varied meanings
9) From division
10) From induction
11) From Authority
12) From subordinate parts
13) From consequence
14) From contrasting opposites
15) From hypocritical deception
16) From consequences by analogy
17) From results to causes
18) From contrasted choices
19) From identifying purpose with cause
20) From reasons for and against
21) From the implausible
22) From contradictions
23) From the cause of a false impression
24) From cause and effect
25) From a better plan
26) From a comparison of contraries
27) From what would have been a mistake
28) From meaning of a name
Invention
Content
Delivery
4 Principles of Aristotle's Rhetoric Style
1. Clarity
2. Appropriateness
3. Correctness
4. Consciousness
Aristotle's Arrangement of Rhetoric
Prooimion (intro)
Anticipated Criticisms
Narrative
Proof (bulk)
Interrogation
Conclusion
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