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Sayers
- Inventio
- "The first obligation of the Christian carpenter is to make good tables"
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Corbett
- Definition of Inventio
- The discovery of argument
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LaRusso (Definitions of Inventio)
The transformations of our perceptions of the world into something available for discourse
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Newman
- Five levels of learning
- Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with a word that they understand what the ideas stand for
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Arnold
- 5th Level: Wisdom
- Rhetoric is about the discovery of ideas, not persuasion alone
- levels of learning
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Augustine (fear of the Lord)
A man fearing God always seeks His will
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MacDonald
- old woman teaching princess in the woods and fear is the only motivator
- fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
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Proverbs 2:5
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
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1 John 4:18
Perfect love casts out fear
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Cicero (Learning broadly)
breadth>depth
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Isocrates (Learn Broadly)
- To give sound advice to the State
- Character choices are part of what it means to be educated
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Lipton
- Lauren Lipton: Lessons of a Lost Education
- talking about how she didn't retain anything she learned in high school and now basic knowledge she does not know
- learn broadly
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Bernstein
- Former teacher writing about the problems in today's education
- no writing skills
- people only tested kids for the AP
- learn broadly
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Jones
- Greeks versus Romans articles
- Greeks>Romans
- but romans always win :(
- habits and inheritances
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G.K. Chesterton (habits&inheritances)
making the familiar unfamiliar
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Langer
- mindlessness: when we merely engage habits
- mindfulness: what we want to do
- habits and inheritances
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Morrow
- rescuing ourselves from particular information
- learning how to say no to bad things
- habits and inheritances
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Keller
- everyone should live three days without sight or sound
- don't feel bad because you are sighted, take advantage of it
- first and last/habits and inheritances
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Ueland
- we waste too much time being our theoretical self--the part of us that just wants to please others
- first and last/habits and inheritances
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Percy
- How can the great suck of self ever hope to be a fat cat dozing in the sun?
- first and last
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Williams
- Way of Affirmation: This also is thou (moving closer to Jesus)
- Way of Negation: Neither is this thou (saying no to things that are not godly)
- first and last
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Scott
- Rhetoric is epistemic, rhetoric is not just a way of conveying knowledge but of discovering it
- Relationship to Invention (moving up levels)
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Bitzer
- Rhetorical situation requires two things:
- 1. invites discourse
- 2. discourse must have a potential impact
- ALSO what you strive for is the 'fitting response'
- exigence
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Aristotle (Facility of Discernment)
school is to teach kids what they ought to like and dislike
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Farrell
- when you acquire a skill, you acquire all the virtues of that skill as well
- the characteristic virtue of rhetoric is discernment
- status/facility of discernment
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Hebrews 5:11-14
- be a sponge and a hose
- constant discernment weans of the milk of mere reception
- status/facility of discernment
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Quintilian
- An Sit: FACT
- Quid Sit: DEFINTION
- Quali Sit: VALUE
- Status/Tests of Discernment
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Corbett (Common Topoi)
- Definition
- Relationship
- Testimony
- Comparison
- Circumstance
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Packer
- goodness of contemplating God
- the best studier of man is not man--it's GOD
- God Topoi
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Augustine (Knowing God)
- you have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it gets to you
- 1. God's Word
- 2. God's Character
- 3. Obedience to God
- 4. Recognizing God's Past
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Merton
- only man who has faced despair knows he needs mercy
- under means/God
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Wordsworth
- Let nature be your teacher
- topoi//nature
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McKibben
- topoi//nature
- 70 TV stations/24 hours solitude
- it's not what we get from TV it is what we lose
- 1. deep sense of limits
- 2. life requires sacrifice
- 3. cyclical
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Hopkins
- what is all this juice and all this joy?
- talking about spring/being excited about nature
- topoi//nature
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Lewis (Nature)
nature does not teach you because you bring to it the knowledge you already know
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Dillard
- there are lots of hidden pennies to be discovered
- cultivate a healthy poverty so that you find joy in finding the penny
- topoi//nature
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Barrett
narcissists are the worst rhetors because they forget the most important point--the AUDIENCE
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Bonhoeffer
- When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die
- know thyself//Self
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Lewis (Self)
- in the presence of God we either forget ourselves or think ourselves dirty little objects
- when we meet a humble person all we think is what a great person who took interest in me
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Pascal (Self)
- we have both an angel and a beast
- love the angel and hate the beast inside of you
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a'Kempis (self)
- consider none more frail than yourself
- learn the proper sorrows of the soul
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GK Chesterton (Self)
we are both men (humanity) and human (sinner)
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Booth
- Topoi//others
- consider authors to be kindred spirits
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Lewis (Others)
- past>present in terms of books
- old books have stood the test of time
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LaRusso (Others)
the deeper I go inside of me, the closer I get to you
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Dimnet
never read--always study
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Clark
- Topoi//Special
- as we see more related topoi, we are increasingly seeing connections b/w things...we are learning, in a word, how to think
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