議論における合理性と有効性の相克 - 岡倉天心著『東洋の覚醒』における感情への訴え -

Abstract

Based on argumentation theories, this study attempts a consideration of competitiveness between reasonableness and effectiveness in argumentation by taking as an example Okakura Tenshin (18631913)’s The Awakening of the East. The reasonableness and effectiveness are both supposed to be realized through argumentation, that is, a discursive activity whereby an arguer increases an audience’s adherence to claims being advanced. Either of those two vectors is presumably overridden by the other; the appeal to emotions is the occurrence of this disequilibrium. The examination of The Awakening of the East in the light of the rhetorical perspective, however, affirms the possibility that the appeal to emotions contributes to the realization of the effectiveness aided by the reasonableness in argumentation. This synergy is substantially attributed to the affinity of rhetorical argumentation for human nature, namely its inclusion of the range of ethos and pathos into argumentation, and acknowledgment of value pluralism.