What Is Rhetoric? (Updated)

Rhetoric can be difficult to define, but it doesn't need to be hard to understand. In this remake of one the channel's earliest videos, we talk about what rhetoric is by seeing it in action.

0:00 Introduction
1:28 Rhetoric in Theory
4:31 Rhetoric in Action
10:15 Conclusion

[MrSchizothemia]

Great video! Completely unexpected Homestar reference at the end took me out 😂

[ElliotBrownJingles]

Top video. Fitting animation (Quentin Blake would approve).

As for Rhetoric not being able to work in a vacuum...I often wonder if people such as Lincoln, Churchill, or Edmund Burke deliberately and constantly put themselves in situations where the exercise of rhetorical devices became helpful or necessary. I have often observed politicians writing letters to the editor or taking up positions as columnists in order to give their opinions on the most disparate of matters, seemingly merely to exercise their power to persuade.

[palaksharma]

Your videos are extremely helpful. Thankyou so much for this channel.

[Khatoon]

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[jimmyraconteur]

lol i saw the 'alchemical symbols' book and instantly subscribed. I thought: '''this will be interesting!

[DrDanLawrence]

I like how Gerard Hauser puts it, something like rhetoric is what emerges in indeterminate spaces (exactly like you describe in the second half of the video in "Rhetoric in Action, " where we often come across situations where there is no perfect scientific answer to a complex problem). I've had trouble tracing the history of this conception of rhetoric, though--do you have a sense of where this may come from? I mean I think you can pin some correlating ideas to Plato's Phaedrus but it's certainly not exact, and it sounds to me more like a 20th century American idea. I've read this conception/definition of rhetoric in Garsten's "Saving Persuasion" as well, but have wondered where it originates if anywhere in particular.

[Jan]

You may think it is a crime to fail to stop at a stop sign (and it is according to law), but one judge ignored the law and excused the ticket of someone who ignored the stop sign and drove into the other driver who had the right of way and no stop sign. So much for laws if they are broken with impunity.

[annonymous]

One thing to remember is sometimes the other party JUST WON'T BUDGE. That's when you may just as well agree to disagree and move on instead of trying to convince them further. Trying to convince them further can in some cases turn out to be comparable to talking to a brick wall when some people just won't change their minds

[metaspacecrownedbytime]

This was a tutorial with examples where you might use rhetoric and suggesting that it might be advantages to use it, but contrary to the title, it does not tell me what it is.

[los]

Begin your search where time was transcendent Crack open the books they're interdependent Lift up your eyes and look for the mark Hike to the tree that stands without bark Pass the grain tower that looks out to the west Not more than an hour you'll know by its crest Look down at your map to not wander with thirst Remember two less than on top of the first You'll know you're close where it's time to frown What points towards heaven but is upside down? Get off the road at the airplane without wings Search from the shoulder and fortune it will bring
.where do i start

[felixst-gelais]

the problem with rhetoric is that no matter how well intentionned you may be, it is intrinsically deceptive, manipulative and fallacious :( and as a proud pedant, it hurts me very much.

[CraigSwanson-sh]

You had me with the copy of Burke on the shelf. But only the Grammar and not the Rhetoric? (In a video on rhetoric.) C’mon now.

[zumwun]

I'm surprised you didn't mention dialectic.. Is it not Relevant? Or could you cover dialectic in another vid? Seems like You definitely played Super Mario World 3.. nefarious flying ship and a raccoon... Hmmm. Also rhetoric and persuasion seems so similar but perhaps rhetoric can't be intentionally misleading?

[upgrade]

This was more about morals and ethics than it was about rhetoric bro

[taxfree]

I still dont understand screw this i am dropping out and working at mcdonalds