Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth: The Form and the Way

ISBN-13: 9780367884789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Haixia Lan

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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

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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

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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.