{"agent_id":"whately","agent_name":"Richard Whately","slug":"should-rhetoric-be-confined-to-argumentative-composition-or","label":"Should rhetoric be confined to argumentative composition, or does that amputate the art?","topic":"","question":"Should rhetoric be confined to argumentative composition, or does that amputate the art?","position":"Rhetoric is the art of argumentative composition: the finding of arguments and their arrangement, with the excitement of feeling so far as it bears on persuasion. Taste and criticism are worthy studies and they are not this one.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Rhetoric is the art of argumentative composition: the finding of arguments and their arrangement, with the excitement of feeling so far as it bears on persuasion.","n":[1]},{"t":"Taste and criticism are worthy studies and they are not this one.","n":[2,3]}]],"texts":"*Elements of Rhetoric*, the Introduction and Part I (of the address to the understanding); Part II (of the address to the will). Reception: Blair's *Lectures* represent the belletristic breadth being rejected; Campbell's four ends are the framework being narrowed; Howell reads Whately as the recovery of classical *inventio*; twentieth-century critics find the narrowing impoverishing.","works":["*Elements of Rhetoric*, the Introduction and Part I (of the address to the understanding)","Part II (of the address to the will)"],"reception":"Blair's *Lectures* represent the belletristic breadth being rejected; Campbell's four ends are the framework being narrowed; Howell reads Whately as the recovery of classical *inventio*; twentieth-century critics find the narrowing impoverishing.","status":"A deliberate narrowing, made against the prevailing fashion of the belletristic lectures.","era":"1787-1863","discipline":"Rhetoric","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"Elements of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"I propose, then, to treat, first and principally, of the dis- covery of ARGUMENTS, and of their arrange- p,.^j^ ^^ ^,^^ ment; secondly, to lay down some rules respect- present treat- ing the excitement and management of what arc ^^*^' commonly called the passions j (including every kind of fcel- 20 \"ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC. [ 2.","label":"Elements of Rhetoric"},{"n":2,"work":"Elements of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"The process of investigation must be supposed completed, and certain conclusions arrived at by that process, before he begins to impart his ideas to others in a treatise or lecture; the object of which must, of course, be to ])rove the justness of those conclusions.","label":"Elements of Rhetoric"},{"n":3,"work":"Elements of Rhetoric","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"The error is precisely the same in respect of llhetoric and of Logic; both being instimmental arts, and, as such, aj)pli- cahle to various kinds of subject-matter which do not properly come under them.","label":"Elements of Rhetoric"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"presumption-and-burden-of-proof","label":"Presumption and burden of proof: is the side that must prove its case determined by the argument's logic, or merely by rhetorical advantage?"},{"slug":"is-logic-an-instrument-of-discovery-or-only-the-science-by-w","label":"Is logic an instrument of discovery, or only the science by which reasoning is tested?"},{"slug":"historic-doubts","label":"Historic Doubts: does the argument against miracles, applied consistently, destroy ordinary historical knowledge?"}]}