Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-88478-9 (ISBN)
The current study argues that different cultures can coexist better today if we focus not only on what separates them but also on what connects them. To do so, the author discusses how both Aristotle and Confucius see rhetoric as a mode of thinking that is indispensable to the human understanding of the truths of things or dao-the-way, or, how both see the human understanding of the truths of things or dao-the-way as necessarily communal, open-ended, and discursive. Based on this similarity, the author aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of differences to help foster better cross-cultural communication. In making the argument, she critically examines two stereotyped views: that Aristotle’s concept of essence or truth is too static to be relevant to the rhetorical focus on the realm of human affairs and that Confucius’ concept of dao-the-way is too decentered to be compatible with the inferential/discursive thinking. In addition, the author relies primarily on the interpretations of the Analects by two 20th-century Chinese Confucians to supplement the overreliance on renderings of the Analects in recent comparative rhetorical scholarship. The study shows that we need an in-depth understanding of both the other and the self to comprehend the relation between the two.
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.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2019 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-88478-X / 036788478X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-88478-9 / 9780367884789 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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