Rhetoric in Classical Education. Three divisions of education in Athens.

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Classical EducationClassical Education

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Three divisions of educationThree divisions of educationin in

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Industrial Arts

Three divisions of educationThree divisions of educationin in

AthensAthens

Industrial Arts Productive Arts

Three divisions of educationThree divisions of educationin in

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Industrial Arts Productive Arts

Liberal Arts

The Question at the Heart of The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education:Liberal Education:

The Question at the Heart of The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education:Liberal Education:

What knowledge must one have to be fully human?

The Question at the Heart of The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education:Liberal Education:

What knowledge must one have to be fully human?

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The Question at the Heart of The Question at the Heart of Liberal Education:Liberal Education:

What knowledge must one have to be fully human?

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What is the knowledge most worth having?

It’s about

It’s aboutExcellence!

John Henry Cardinal Newman

John Henry Cardinal Newman

the man who has learned to think and to reason and to compare and to discriminate and to analyze, who has refined his taste, and formed his judgment, and sharpened his mental vision, will not indeed at once be a lawyer, or a pleader, or an orator, or a statesman, or a physician, . . . but he will be placed in that state of intellect in which he can take up any one of the sciences or callings I have referred to, or any other for which he has a taste or special talent, with an ease, a grace, a versatility, and a success, to which another is a stranger. . . .

John Henry Cardinal Newman

I say that a cultivated intellect, because it is a good in itself, brings with it a power and a grace to every work and occupation which it undertakes, and enables us to be more useful, and to a

greater number (The Idea of the University. U Notre Dame Press,1982, pp. 124 & 6).

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium Quadrivium

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar

Dialectic

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar

DialecticRhetoric

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar Astronomy

DialecticRhetoric

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar Astronomy

Dialectic GeometryRhetoric

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar Astronomy

Dialectic GeometryRhetoric Arithmetic

The Seven Classical Liberal Arts

Trivium QuadriviumGrammar Astronomy

Dialectic GeometryRhetoric Arithmetic

Music

The Art of Rhetoric

Techne

"The kind of knowledge possessed by an expert maker; it gives him a clear conception of the why and wherefore, the how and the with what of the making process and enables him, through the capacity to offer a rational account of it, to preside over his activity with secure mastery" (1993, p. 9).

Art vs. Intuition

Art vs. Intuition

To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:

Art vs. Intuition

To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:

1. Define it.

Art vs. Intuition

To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:

1. Define it.

2. Break it into parts

Art vs. Intuition

To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:

1. Define it.

2. Break it into parts

3. Study the parts

Art vs. Intuition

To master any body of knowledge as an art, one must:

1. Define it.

2. Break it into parts

3. Study the parts

4. Practice

Hexis

Hexis

Habit; habitude

Hexis

Second nature!

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

Psychology

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Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

PsychologyPolitics

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

PsychologyPolitics

Law

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

PsychologyPolitics

Law

Poetics

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

PsychologyPolitics

Law

Poetics Religion

The Most Humane of the The Most Humane of the HumanitiesHumanities

Rhetoric

Dialectic Ethics

PsychologyPolitics

Law

Poetics Religion

History

Aristotle defines rhetoricrhetoric

Aristotle defines rhetoricrhetoricas

Aristotle defines rhetoricrhetoricas

"The faculty of discovering in any given case the available means of persuasion."

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Artistic & Inartistic Proofs

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Artistic & Inartistic Proofs

Ethos

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Artistic & Inartistic Proofs

EthosPathos

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Artistic & Inartistic Proofs

EthosPathosLogos

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Species of rhetoric

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Species of rhetoric

Forensic

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Species of rhetoric

Forensic Deliberative

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Species of rhetoric

Forensic Deliberative Epideictic

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Topoi

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Topoi

Common topics

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Topoi

Common topicsSpecial topics

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Aristotle’s aim:

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Aristotle’s aim:That his students “gain skill in enthymemes”

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

Aristotle’s aim:That his students have a well supplied

storehouse of materials with which to build persuasive arguments!

Aristotle on RhetoricRhetoric

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The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

Invention

The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

Invention

Disposition

The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

Invention

Disposition

Style

The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

Invention

Disposition

StyleMemory

The Five Classical CanonsThe Five Classical Canons

Invention

Disposition

StyleMemory

Delivery

Rhetoric Rhetoric and and

Human ExcellenceHuman Excellence

Rhetoric and EthicsRhetoric and Ethics

Phronesis in in

rhetorical reasonrhetorical reason

Rhetoric and DialecticRhetoric and Dialectic

Rhetoric and ImaginationRhetoric and Imagination

Rhetoric is not mere techne . . .

Rhetoric is not mere techne . . .

Classical rhetoric, in its most ethical and ancient manifestation, is a way of discussing the truth with

one's fellows in a manner that respects their freedom and dignity, and attempts to move them

toward the Good.

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