PHILOSOPHY

Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Introduction

Cicero follows exactly the Platonic doctrine in constant demand, which is seen in the De oratore in the Brutus and the Orator-wide philosophical background for the speaker: the theory of eloquence is in the manuals of Philosophy, and Rhetoric is learned in the schools of philosophy, which is why a philosopher is able to deliver a speech without having studied rhetoric, though she says Philosophy and Rhetoric are inextricably linked, so that one cannot develop without the other and vice versa. In fact, it is postulated that philosophy and rhetoric are the same thing as the ornate rhetoric characterizes the dicere, speaking with elegance and philosophical training needs, while it does not require express aesthetically, what he says is that the philosopher is not needed to require knowledge of rhetoric, while he becomes a kind of eloquent philosopher. This idea leads us away from the doctrines of the Stoics and makes clear run fan of the academic (school continued to develop the Platonic doctrine) and the Peripatetics (followers of Aristotle).

The requirement that he have a strong philosophical background is very much in touch, too, with the Cicero-like attack as Socrates did the rhetoricians who believe they are ready to defend any issue with only having sufficient knowledge of Rhetoric. For him, big models were Demosthenes, prototype speaker-philosopher, Isocrates, or academic and peripatetic philosophers, interested in the phenomenon of eloquence, and Plato himself, who says he was so expert in philosophy as it might have been in Rhetoric. In the words of Alberte González (1987: 22):

"So, for Cicero's eloquence must integrate philosophy, as a unit as the body and soul, hence objectionable to him as he is without knowledge of philosophy and the philosopher without mastery of eloquence. In this sense Plato is for Cicero not only the support of his argument but also the model that best reflects the situation. At the same time, Cicero led by the spirit of the Platonic aemulatio as Quintilian later point out, it is proposed to himself as a model of philosophical oratory, showing proud to have served equally to the eloquence that philosophy.”

Truth and Knowledge

In line with that seen pure, it follows that the tenets of Cicero Plato discards many rhetoricians contemporary contempt for his ignorance of philosophy and its total constituency without the obligatory rhetoric, which leads him to draw a barrier, that will perpetuate many centuries, among the great orator and he mediocre barrier located in the intellectual formation of each. Not indifferent to the question, and can even study the verbal system for different types of speakers, both in terms of lexical oppositions that articulate the classification of the types of speaker, the in-house characterization of terminology.

However, Cicero does not usually spare no effort or unfavorable adjectives to their receptors, when speaking of people whose only training rhetoric or the only warning of their natural qualities, are released to the Profession of Speech in full ignorance of philosophy. An attitude of contempt that is also seen in the Gorgias and the ...