By Joseph Petraglia, Deepika Bahri
Argues for a extra theoretically proficient and cogent curricular house for rhetoric within the academy.
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Second, what “we” do, how we act and reflect on our actions (both of which Cicero broadly configures as “oratory,” or rhetorica utens and docens), though they sustain complex relationships to “other disciplines,” shaping and being shaped in turn by intellectual disciplines and their powerful theories, nevertheless emerge out of fluctuating needs and interests that are (in comparison to terminal theory) relatively unformed and indeterminate in their possible meanings. Hence, they are unable to be contained within “subject matter” boundaries and their rule-governed procedures: for Cicero, as for others after him, rhetoric is an art, not a principled science.
Thus tying together logic and emotion in the concept of the enthymeme recognizes that motivating others requires emotional atunement both to the circumstances and to those with whom we are making decisions about those circumstances. TOPICS AS REPERTOIRES OF BEHAVIOR The question for rhetorical theory remains then exactly how to organize our own experience and the experiences of those around us so that we may take the appropriate actions in a given situation. It is at this point that the importance of topics as part of the inventional process becomes apparent.
12) Cicero makes several interrelated points. First, “common practice, custom, and speech” are “open to view” (not transparent in their meanings), because Walter Jost 21 they just are what we do, how we act—however problematic that “we” can become. Second, what “we” do, how we act and reflect on our actions (both of which Cicero broadly configures as “oratory,” or rhetorica utens and docens), though they sustain complex relationships to “other disciplines,” shaping and being shaped in turn by intellectual disciplines and their powerful theories, nevertheless emerge out of fluctuating needs and interests that are (in comparison to terminal theory) relatively unformed and indeterminate in their possible meanings.