Framing Issues

Framing Issues

1. Rhetoric

   • arhetorical as found in Locke (pp. 498-99)
   • "finding the available means of persuasion" (Ramage, p. 94)
   • History is written from the point of power conceded to philosophy and all discourse is framed around that identity (Ramage, p. 50).
   • Separation of truth from effect (p. 52)
     • Truth as a social construct through rhetoric versus evidence (p. 52).
   • Monfasani, place of rhetoric (p. 1169)
   • Monfasani, renaissance humanism (p. 1170)
   • Burkian
     • Bureaucratization of the imaginative (pp. 62-65)
     • Dramatism via PENTAD (p. 68)
   • The New Rhetoric
     • Ramage, statis theory (pp. 78, 81)
       • Ramage et al.'s five stases include definitional, resemblance, causal, proposal, evaluative and ethical (p. 79)
     • Ramage, uses of argument (p. 87)

2. Rhetor

   • Hume would assert they must be mentally healthy to understand taste (p. 64)
     • Blair, (pp 32-34)
     • Terministic screens (Ramage, p. 67)
       • Demonstration (Ramage, p. 58)
         • Hume on orator and oration (#7)
           • Vico on orator (p. 869)
             • Ramus, p. 4, on the ideal orator
   • Lauer on rhetor, heuristics, and hermeneutics [intertextuality and subjectivity] (pp. 6, 8, 9, 10)
   • Monfasani, rhetorical training (p. 1172)
   • Ramage, et al, Aristotle as a model (p. 57)
   • Ramage, kairos (p. 66)

3. Interlocutor

   • Ramage, truth is social (p. 52)
   • Vico on audience and ethics (pp. 869, 871)
   • Texts that were produced in the middle ages were composes for special occasions and were destined to fulfill definite social functions (Kristeller, 1173)
   • Lauer (pp. 7, 13-14)
   • Ramage, jeremiad of persuasion (p. 54)
   • Ramage, study of audience (p. 57-61)
   • Ramage, Aristotle's sites of argument (p. 59)

4. Language

   • Locke on language (pp. 498-99)
   • Vico (p. 870) on pedagogy
   • Lauer - techne (pp. 466-67) through inventional pedagogy
   • Lauer, inventional pedagogies (p. 120-128)
   • Lauer, Plato-19th century (pp. 47-64)
   • Monfasani, forensic speeches (p. 1171)
   • Monfasani, eloquence, grammar, speech (p. 1170)
   • Ramage, et al, axioms of truth, demonstrations (p. 52)
   • Ramage, et al, absolutist dialogues (p. 53)
   • Ramage, visual language (semiotics), (pp. 60-62)
   • Ramage: "Burke's 'paradox of substance' whereby a world 'used to designate what a thing is, derives from a word designating something that a thing is not ..." (p. 68)
   • Ramage, Burke's realism (p. 69)
   • Ramage, Ramus' merger of dialectic with logic (p. 75)

5. Reality

   • Ramage on reality (p. 71)
   • Locke on epistemology (p. B.II, Ch. IX, #15)
   • Bacon on epistemology (p. 218)
   • Lauer on rhetoric as epesitemic (p. 8)
   • Lauer, relativist epistemology, kairos (p. 17)
   • Locke as perception (p. 132)
   • Tensions: "... the first tension centers on the ancient emnity between philosophy and rhetoric while the second focuses on rhetoric's not always successful resistance to ossification" (Ramage, et al, p. 49)
   • Ramage, et al, imperfect but workable answers (p. 55)
   • Ramage, facile perspectives (p. 63)
   • Ramage, Kennedy's codification and systematized rhetoric (pp. 64-65)
   • Ramage, identity and identification as realistic (p. 80)
   • Ramage, Toulmin Schema as formal logical demonstration (pp. 87-96)