Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political by Gary A. Remer
By Gary A. Remer
Remer’s examine is precise from different works on political morality in that it turns to Cicero, no longer Aristotle, because the progenitor of a moral rhetorical standpoint. opposite to many, if no longer such a lot, stories of Cicero because the mid-nineteenth century, that have both attacked him as morally detached or have purely taken his persuasive ends heavily (setting his ethical issues to the side), Ethics and the Orator demonstrates how Cicero offers his perfect orator as exemplary not just in his skill to cajole, yet in his skill as a moral individual. Remer makes a compelling case that Ciceronian values—balancing the ethical and the invaluable, prudential reasoning, and decorum—are no longer specific basically to the thinker himself, yet are specific of a broader Ciceronian rhetorical culture that runs in the course of the background of Western political proposal post-Cicero, together with the writings of Quintilian, John of Salisbury, Justus Lipsius, Edmund Burke, the authors of The Federalist, and John Stuart Mill.
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