By Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Douglas Walton, John Woods, David Zarefsky, Ralph H. Johnson, Christian Plantin, Charles A. Willard, J. Anthony Blair, Erik C. W. Krabbe
Publish yr note: First released in 1996
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Argumentation concept is a incredibly multidisciplinary box of inquiry. It attracts its info, assumptions, and strategies from disciplines as disparate as formal good judgment and discourse research, linguistics and forensic technological know-how, philosophy and psychology, political technological know-how and schooling, sociology and legislation, and rhetoric and synthetic intelligence. This provides the starting to be staff of students and scholars with an issue of entry, because it is even for these energetic within the box now not universal to have got a familiarity with correct elements of every self-discipline that enters into this multidisciplinary matrix.
This publication deals its readers a distinct accomplished survey of many of the theoretical contributions which were made to the learn of argumentation. It discusses the historic works that offer the history to the sector and all significant ways and traits in modern research.
Argument has been the topic of systematic inquiry for twenty-five hundred years. it's been graced with theories, comparable to formal common sense or the criminal concept of proof, that experience bought a kind of settled provenance with reference to precise concerns. yet there was not anything so far that qualifies as a unified common conception of argumentation, in all its richness and complexity. This being so, the argumentation theorist should have entry to fabrics and techniques that lie past his or her "home" topic. it's accurately in this account that this quantity is out there to the entire constituent learn groups and their scholars.
Apart from the ancient sections, each one bankruptcy offers a cheap advent to the issues and techniques that symbolize a given a part of the modern learn software. as the chapters are self-contained, they are often consulted within the order of a reader's pursuits or learn necessities. yet there's price in studying the paintings in its entirety.
Jointly authored via the very humans whose study has performed a lot to outline the present country of argumentation conception and to indicate the best way towards extra common and unified destiny remedies, this ebook is an impressively authoritative contribution to the sector.
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This makes sense in cities like Athens, where the Assembly and the law courts were the principal mechanisms of government and were open to all citizens. Thus, Aristotle explains that his definition applies particularly to democracies, for other forms of constitution like oligarchy or monarchy may have no Assembly (1275b). ’’ In order to understand why Aristotle on the one hand seems to privilege collective deliberation in his definition of citizenship and yet reject it in his treatment of democratic institutions we need to inquire more closely into his analysis of democracy and the role of oratory in democratically governed cities.
2003 5:57pm page 31 The Politics of Deliberation 31 The good citizen, instead of trying to terrify the opposition, ought to prove his case in fair argument. Thucydides is well aware of the harmful effects that oratory can have on political decision-making. In the Mytilinean Debate and in many other passages, he presents with devastating clarity the harm that can ensue when public discourse becomes distorted by self-seeking leaders under the pressure of war or national crises. But at the same time, as he has Diodotus argue, he is well aware that a self-governing political community (unlike a tyranny) has no other choice but to employ persuasive discourse because the logos (word, speech, argument, discourse, reason) is the only medium by which human beings can wisely govern a well-ordered political community.
This is the idea captured by the word kairos, which involves timeliness or opportuneness. The most logically compelling and ironclad argument will fail if it is made in a way that will not appeal to that particular audience at that particular time. 7 Likewise, in the debate at Athens it was the Corcyraeans who understood their audience and how Athenians deliberate. Their appeal to cold, sober assessment of interest was persuasive against the kinds of appeals made by the Corinthians that, however meritorious, were based upon factors not valued highly in Athenian deliberation.