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Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth - Haixia Lan

Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth

The Form and the Way

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Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2019
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978-0-367-88478-9 (ISBN)
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Readings of Aristotle’s and Confucius’ teachings reveal that both philosophers’ rhetorical thinking contain vital similarities which can help us understand cultural differences today. Much has been said about Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric as ‘the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion’ but few studies have
The current study argues that different cultures can coexist better today if we focus not only on what separates them but also on what connects them. To do so, the author discusses how both Aristotle and Confucius see rhetoric as a mode of thinking that is indispensable to the human understanding of the truths of things or dao-the-way, or, how both see the human understanding of the truths of things or dao-the-way as necessarily communal, open-ended, and discursive. Based on this similarity, the author aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of differences to help foster better cross-cultural communication. In making the argument, she critically examines two stereotyped views: that Aristotle’s concept of essence or truth is too static to be relevant to the rhetorical focus on the realm of human affairs and that Confucius’ concept of dao-the-way is too decentered to be compatible with the inferential/discursive thinking. In addition, the author relies primarily on the interpretations of the Analects by two 20th-century Chinese Confucians to supplement the overreliance on renderings of the Analects in recent comparative rhetorical scholarship. The study shows that we need an in-depth understanding of both the other and the self to comprehend the relation between the two.

Haixia W. Lan received her PhD in English from Purdue University with an emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition and Literary Theory. She works at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, teaching writing as a process of learning; theories of rhetorical invention; the grammar, politics, ethics of style; and comparative rhetoric. Her research is in all of these areas, and she is the academic director of 2+2 English degree program.

Introduction: Living the Form and Knowing the Way










Similarities and Differences







Rhetoric and the Other







Rhetoric and Truth







Rhetoric and Sophistry







A Twofold Argument







Translations of Works by Aristotle and Confucius






Chapter One: Aristotle and Rhetorical Invention: A Legacy of Probable Inquiry








Episteme and Techne







Sophistical Reasoning







Dialectical Reasoning







Both Sophistical and Dialectical Reasoning







Classical Rhetoric







Rhetorical Invention Today







Conclusions






Chapter Two: Interpreting the Analects: The Need to Address Rhetorical Invention










Confucius and Rhetoric

















Confucius as a Rhetorician







Confucius on Rhetorical Invention















Studies of Confucius’ Analects

















Religious and Philosophical Interpretations







Literary Interpretations







Rhetorical Interpretations



















Two Approaches







Difficulties with Focusing Exclusively on Differences







Importance of Studying Differences within Cultures















Conclusions






Chapter Three: Rhetorical Probability: Form, Eikos, Tianming, and Rendao










Form and Eikos in Aristotle:

















Truth, Form, and Logos







Form, Logos, and Nous







Form, Logos and Pa

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-367-88478-X / 036788478X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-88478-9 / 9780367884789
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