Overview
- Presents a new analytical method for the better understanding of reasoning in classical oratory
- Includes in-depth analysis of selected forensic speeches from Ciceronian oratory
- Provides complex argumentative strategies that may be used in contemporary argumentation and rhetoric
- Offers a thorough study of probabilistic reasoning in classical Roman legal arguments
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 23)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Analyses of Ciceronian Oratory
- Ancient Rhetorical Systems
- Arguments in Ancient Rhetoric
- Ciceronian Speeches
- Early Greek Rhetoric
- Heuremes in Cicero
- Heuristic Arguments in the Greek Orators
- Heuristic Oratory
- Meaning of εἰκός and its Cognates
- Origins of Heuristics
- Sulla
- veri simile in Rhetorical Theory
- ‘Facts’ of the Case
- ‘Probabilities’ of the Case
About this book
This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero
Authors: Gábor Tahin
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01799-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01798-3Published: 09 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34769-1Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01799-0Published: 23 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 193
Topics: Logic, Classical Studies, Historical Linguistics, Classical Philosophy