Rhetoric as Happiness. Ethical Implications of Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric Exemplified by Pericles’ Funeral Oration
This article maps out the interrelationship between the rhetorical and the ethical uses of happiness ( eudaimonia) in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics and within the framework of the democratic polis in Greek antiquity. The main contention is that happiness, in this context, function...
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2018
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | This article maps out the interrelationship between the rhetorical and the ethical
uses of happiness ( eudaimonia) in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics and
within the framework of the democratic polis in Greek antiquity. The main contention is that happiness, in this context, functions as a fundamental premise in
rhetorical deliberations, allowing rhetorical discourse and the structure of a people’s moral character ( ethos) to organize each other. A brief analysis of Pericles’
eulogy demonstrates how epideictic oratory can function as argumentation that
simultaneously advances happiness as a political and a personal goal. Finally, the
article concludes that the interrelationship between rhetoric and ethics makes it
possible to critically test any rhetorical statement in terms of happiness.
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