{"agent_id":"campbell","agent_name":"George Campbell","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?","topic":"","question":"Should rhetoric be founded on the science of the mind rather than on the precepts of the ancients?","position":"Eloquence is the art by which discourse is adapted to its end. Since its ends are to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passions and influence the will, the rules must be drawn from an account of those faculties and of how each is affected.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Eloquence is the art by which discourse is adapted to its end.","n":[]},{"t":"Since its ends are to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passions and influence the will, the rules must be drawn from an account of those faculties and of how each is affected.","n":[1,2]}]],"texts":"*The Philosophy of Rhetoric*, the Introduction and I.1-2 (the ends of discourse), I.7 (the connection of argument and passion). Reception: Howell treats this as the decisive modernizing move in British rhetoric; the classical objection is that faculty psychology has since been abandoned while Aristotle's *Rhetoric* has not.","works":["*The Philosophy of Rhetoric*, the Introduction and I.1-2 (the ends of discourse), I.7 (the connection of argument and passion)"],"reception":"Howell treats this as the decisive modernizing move in British rhetoric; the classical objection is that faculty psychology has since been abandoned while Aristotle's *Rhetoric* has not.","status":"The organizing principle of the whole work and its claim to be a *philosophy* of rhetoric rather than another system of precepts.","era":"1719-1796","discipline":"Rhetoric","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"This was the idea of Lord Verulam,* perhaps the most compreljoMsive genius in philosophy that has appeared in modern times. 13ut these are not the only arts which have their foundation in tlie science of human nature. Grammar, too, in its general principles, has a close connexion with the understanding, and the theory of the association of ideas.","label":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric"},{"n":2,"work":"The Philosophy of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"II Chap, v., sect, ii., pt. 1. 98 THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC. must be owned that the natural connexion of the several links in tlio chain renders the remembrance easier. Now, as nothing can operate on the mind which is not in some respect present to it, care must be taken by the orator that, in introducing new topics, the vestiges left by the former on the minds of the hearers may not be effaced.","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":"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":"argument-and-passion","label":"Argument and passion: is moving the feelings a legitimate part of proof, or a substitute for it?"},{"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?"}]}