{"agent_id":"campbell","agent_name":"George Campbell","slug":"argument-and-passion","label":"Argument and passion: is moving the feelings a legitimate part of proof, or a substitute for it?","topic":"Argument and passion","question":"Is moving the feelings a legitimate part of proof, or a substitute for it?","position":"Passion is not the enemy of argument but the only thing that carries a conclusion into action. What is illegitimate is passion raised on a false view of the object, not passion as such.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Passion is not the enemy of argument but the only thing that carries a conclusion into action.","n":[]},{"t":"What is illegitimate is passion raised on a false view of the object, not passion as such.","n":[1,2]}]],"texts":"*The Philosophy of Rhetoric* I.7 (the connexion of argument and passion), I.9-11 (the vivacity of ideas, and the circumstances that raise emotion). Reception: Plato's *Gorgias* is the ancient charge; the Enlightenment suspicion of enthusiasm is the contemporary pressure; modern argumentation theory's treatment of pathos as a fallacy when detached from the case follows Campbell's line.","works":["*The Philosophy of Rhetoric* I.7 (the connexion of argument and passion), I.9-11 (the vivacity of ideas, and the circumstances that raise emotion)"],"reception":"Plato's *Gorgias* is the ancient charge; the Enlightenment suspicion of enthusiasm is the contemporary pressure; modern argumentation theory's treatment of pathos as a fallacy when detached from the case follows Campbell's line.","status":"Argued as a corrective to a philosophy that had made feeling the opposite of reason.","era":"1719-1796","discipline":"Rhetoric","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Indeed, when the hearers are rude and ignorant, nothing more is necessary in the speak er than to inflame their passions. They will not require that the coimexion between the conduct he urges and the end pro posed be evinced to them. His word will satisfy. And there fore bold affirmations are made to supply the place of rea- sons.","label":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric"},{"n":2,"work":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"You assure me, \"It is for my honour.\" Now you solicit my pride, wiih- out which I had never been able to understand the word. You say, \" It is for rny interest.\" Now you bespeak my self-love. \" It is for the public good.\" Now you ro'ise m> 100 THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC. patriotism. \" It will relieve the miserable.\" Now you touch my pity.","label":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"miracles-and-testimony","label":"Miracles and testimony: does Hume's rule for weighing evidence refute miracle reports, or does it prove too much?"},{"slug":"should-rhetoric-be-founded-on-the-science-of-the-mind-rather","label":"Should rhetoric be founded on the science of the mind rather than on the precepts of the ancients?"},{"slug":"what-makes-a-usage-correct","label":"What makes a usage correct: the practice of good writers, or the rules of logic, etymology and analogy?"},{"slug":"pulpit-eloquence-and-translation","label":"Pulpit eloquence and translation: does the preacher's authority come from the text, and what does faithful rendering of it require?"}]}