- Abbreviated names, 229-30
- Address Preceding the Removal of the Senate from the Old to the New Chamber, 176-77
- Adler, Mortimer J., 27, 30-31
- Aesthetic distance, 175-79
- “aggressor,” 231-32
- “allies,” 221-22
- “American,” 218-20
- Anderson, Sherwood, 226
- Animadversions upon the Remonstrant’s Defence against Smectymnuus, 160
- Areopagitica, 147, 150, 159
- Aristotle
- definition of dialectical problem, 15-16
- cited, 128, 203
- Beveridge, Albert, 85
- Beyle, Herman C., 192
- Bible, 14, 214
- Bishop, John Peale, 161, 201
- Blish, James, 5
- Bongiorno, Andrew, 203
- Breckinridge, John C., 176
- Bryan, William Jennings, 36-39, 41
- Bryan, William Jennings, Jr., 35
- Burke, Edmund
- on the Catholic question, 58-62
- policy toward American colonies, 62-65
- policy toward India, 65-68
- policy toward the French Revolution, 68-72
- on metaphysics, 72-73
- Burke, Kenneth, 22, 128, 225
- Carlyle, Thomas, 133
- Carroll, E. Malcolm, 79
- Caste spirit, 206-8
- Channing, W. E., 143
- Charismatic terms, 227-32
- Chase, Stuart, 8
- Choate, Rufus, 179
- Churchill, Winston, 20
- Cicero, 174
- Circumstance, argument from, defined, 57
- “Communist,” 222-23
- Craddock, Charles Egbert, 165
- Darrow, Clarence, 32, 34-35, 41
- Demetrius, On Style, 173
- “democracy,” 228-29
- Democracy in America, Tocqueville’s, 76
- DeWitt, Norman J., 174
- Dialectical terms, 48, 52-53, 187-88;
- Plato on, 16
- Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 146, 153
- Duhamel, P. Albert, 3
- “efficient,” 217-18
- Eisenhower, Dwight D., 81
- Epistemology, in relation to oratory, 178-82
- Ewing, Representative Andrew, 164-65
- “fact,” 214-15
- Faris, Ellsworth, 205
- Faulkner, Charles J., 168
- Federal Prose, 199-200
- “freedom,” 228
- Genus, argument from, defined, 56
- GI rhetoric, 225-26
- Greek language, 140
- Harding, T. Swann, 208
- Hay, John, 85
- Hays, Arthur Garfield, 35-36
- Henley, W. E., 131
- Herndon, W. H., 85, 89, 111-12
- “history,” 220-21
- Huxley, T. H., 8, 122-23
- Inverted hierarchies, 224-27
- Jackson, Andrew, 78
- James, Henry, 121-22, 123, 133-34
- Jameson, Samuel H., 197
- Laski, Harold, 207
- Latinate terms, 196-201
- Lincoln, Abraham
- argument from genus “man,” 87-95
- First Inaugural Address, 96-100
- on definition, 104-5
- and the excluded middle, 105-7
- his perspective, 108-11
- Lundberg, George, 204
- Lysias, speech of, 5-7
- Malone, Dudley Field, 35, 39, 47-48
- Maritain, Jacques, 21, 24
- Mather, Kirtley F., 42-43, 51
- Melioristic bias, 195-201
- Metaphor, attitude of social scientists toward, 202-6
- Metcalf, Maynard, 49
- Milton, John
- primacy of the concept, 144-52
- extended metaphor, use of, 150-52
- antithetical expressions, use of, 152-55
- superlative mode, 155-58
- systematic collocation, use of, 158-61
- “modern,” 217
- Morley, John, 67
- Murray, Paul, 79, 80, 81
- Nicolay, John G., 85
- Of Reformation in England, 145, 148, 154, 156
- Orwell, George, 228, 229, 230
- Parts of speech
- noun, 127-28
- adjective, 129-33
- adverb, 133-34
- verb, 135-36
- conjunction, 137-38
- preposition, 138-39
- Pedantic empiricism, 191-95
- Phrases, 139-41
- Plato
- method of transcendence, 4-5, 18-19
- on madness as a form of inspiration, 13
- definition of positive and dialectical terms, 16
- on the nature of the soul, 17
- Position and Function of the American Bar, as an Element of Conservatism in the State, The, 179-81
- “prejudice,” 223-24
- Primary equivocation, 187-91
- Prior, James, 75-76
- “progress,” 212-14
- Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty, 151
- Rhetorical syllogism, 173
- Right of assumption, 169
- Russell, Bertrand, 191, 204
- Sandburg, Carl, 129
- Santillana, George de, 203-4
- “science,” 215-16
- Seeman, Melvin, 192
- “semantically purified” speech, 7-10
- Sentence
- defined, 117-18
- grammatical types of, 119-27
- Shapiro, Karl, 130
- Similitude, argument from, defined, 56-57
- Spinoza, B., 25
- Stewart, Attorney-general of Tennessee, 32, 33, 39, 41, 46-47
- Stylization, 182-83
- Tate, Allen, 118
- Taylor, A. E., 3
- Taylor, Donald J., 194
- Tennessee anti-evolution law, 29-30
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 76
- Tuve, Rosemund, 150
- Twain, Mark, 136, 224
- Uncontested terms, 166-71, 184
- Where the Battle Was Fought, 165
- Whig political philosophy, 76-80
- Williamson, Samuel T., 186
About This Book
A series of essays considers the moral and intellectual foundations of rhetorical practice, beginning with a close reading of Plato's Phaedrus to distinguish rhetoric from dialectic and to categorize kinds of persuasive speech. Subsequent chapters examine rhetorical reasoning in figures like Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, analyze grammatical categories and Milton's prose, and explore the scope of classical rhetorical tradition. The collection also assesses rhetoric's application in social science and probes how ultimate terms shape contemporary public argument.