Of Violence and Rhetoric: An Ethical Aporia

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: EthicsDeliberationDesirePsycheRhetorical Force Notes 1. Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004). 2. Plato, Gorgias, trans. W. R. M. Lamb (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1932), 482c–486d. 3. See also Megan Foley, “Peitho and Bia: The Force of Language.” Symplokē 20 (2012): 81–89. 4. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, trans. H. Rackham (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1935), 2.1224b. 5. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 6. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. H. Rackham (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard UP, 1934), 1109b. 8. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. While I have stayed fairly close to the translations credited, I have slightly modified those translations throughout to highlight elided terminological specificities in the original Greek text. 9. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 10. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1225a. 11. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1111a. 12. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1110b. 13. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1110b. 14. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 15. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 16. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 17. Aristotle, Metaphysics, trans. Hugh Tredennick (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1933), 5.1015b. Nota bene: “Physis is not to be taken in the modern sense of ‘nature’ as opposed to ‘culture,’ whereupon one polemicizes against Aristotle. … Physei on is a being that is what it is from out of itself.” Martin Heidegger, Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy, trans. Robert D. Metcalf and Mark B. Tanzer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), 33. 18. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1225a. 19. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1225a. 20. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 21. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1225a. 22. Aristotle, The “Art” of Rhetoric, trans. John Henry Freese (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1926), 1.10.7. 23. Stuart Elden, “Reading Logos as Speech: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Rhetorical Politics,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 38 (2005): 286. 24. Cf. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1223a and Rhetoric, 1.10.8. 25. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.3.3. 26. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.3.4. 27. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.4.1–1.4.2. 28. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.10.7. 29. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 30. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 31. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.10.8. 32. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 33. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 34. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 35. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 36. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 37. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 38. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 39. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 40. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 41. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 42. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 43. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 44. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 45. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 46. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 47. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 48. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 49. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 50. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224a. 51. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 52. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 53. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. 54. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 2.1224b. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMegan FoleyMegan Foley is at Department of Communication, Mississippi State University