English 5001

Socrates on rhetoric

The Socratic Dialogue is an interesting reading about the definition and use of rhetoric. In my opinion rhetoric is the game of words; an artificer of persuasion that creates belief about just among the masses. The rhetoricians convince men that…

Quintilian

In my opinion Quintilian’s rhetoric covers three aspects: the theoretical, the educational, and the practical. He agrees on the theory of rhetoric with other rhetoricians “that oratory is the science of speaking well, for it embraces all the virtues, and…

Cicero

I found this in my drafts for some reason it never got published ? “What greater intellectual treat than the brilliant discourse of a perfect scholar?” In Cicero “De Oratore”, Cicero is confident that the power an orator possesses is…

Shirley Miranda Brenes March 4, 2010 On Aristotle, Quintilian, and Cicero Undoubtedly this week’s readings are vast and cover an array of really interesting elements in rhetoric, and although quite different, they all interrelate. I was particularly drawn by the…

Versions of Enthymeme

I had to write out what enthymeme meant since it was used with the word syllogism.  Try saying those two words ten times without stuttering!  Reading how they relate to one another was a reading tongue twister, but my impression…

Aristotle’s Lying for Dummies

The readings this week reminded me heavily of the discussions we’ve been having in class thus far.  While many of the issues we’ve been talking about were very relevant in the Aristotle reading in particular, the one that really interested…

Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Go from one Greek philosopher to the next, throw in a few Roman thinkers and it becomes clear through this class’ readings that the power of rhetoric is not lost on today’s society. Comparing the education of today with that…