Rhetoric and Risk

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

Rhetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: Ancient Irish Rhetoric

Our first tendency is to look outside Europe when searching for ancient rhetorics that do not follow the Greco-Roman tradition. After all, much of European culture was strongly influenced by Roman culture, especially following the conquests of Julius Caesar in 58-51 BCE and subsequent conquests that brought most of Europe under Roman control. Rome’s civic practices, including variations of Grec...

Rhetoric , Analogies , and Induction ∗

One aspect of the art of rhetoric is the ability to change other people’s minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new information. Rhetoric often employs analogies between cases, and induction from cases to rules. Using analogies, one may draw the listener’s attention to similarities between cases. Induction is used to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain r...

Galen and Stoic rhetoric.

T SOPHISTS are at dinner, and among them Athenaeus places Galen as well as the less identifiable physicians 'Daphnus of Ephesus' and 'Rufinus of Nicaea'.l The connection between rhetoric and medicine is in fact an old one, going back to the beginnings of both in the first sophistic period.2 We might expect, however, that the connection would be especially well marked in the second century A. D....

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy