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Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero
Argumentation Library 23
ISBN/EAN: 9783319347691
Umbreit-Nr.: 9785664
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xvi, 193 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 27.08.2016
Auflage: 1/2014
€ 53,49
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- Zusatztext
- This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero's forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.
- Kurztext
- This book presents a new analytical method for the better understanding of reasoning in classical oratory. It features in-depth analysis of selected forensic speeches from Ciceronian oratory and offers complex argumentative strategies.