Understanding Aristotle课件.ppt

Invention by Patricia Rogal(Shanna) Quote 2: “And if what usually occurs after something else has happened the previous event has also happened; for example, if someone has forgotten something, he has also once learned it” (p.177) 精品文档 Interpretation Knowledge can be based on prior understandings of the events This knowledge is not a constant, and can be gained or lost 精品文档 Invention by Patricia Rogal(Shanna) Quote 3: Quote 3: “look at what turns the mind in favor and what turns the mind against something, and for what reasons people both act and avoid action” (p.200) 精品文档 Interpretation What makes people believe the things they do? Is their knowledge gained by reason, fact or possibility? 精品文档 Invention by Patricia Rogal(Shanna) Quote 4: “for some things happen contrary to probability, so what is contrary to probability is also probable. If this is so, the improbable will be probable” (p.209) 精品文档 Interpretation What is unlikely to be true or to occur, can still come about and transpire Knowledge of things or events is not always certain 精品文档 Delivery by Shanna Brainard Quote 1: “…how and through what means one ought to make speeches ethical…” (pg 173) 精品文档 Interpretation How a rhetor should make a speech or his/her delivery should make the speech ethical. 精品文档 Delivery by Shanna Brainard Quote 2: “…since in each kind of speech the projected “end” is a good…it is evident that one should size the opportunities for amplification through [discussions of] these [objectives].” (pg 178) 精品文档 Interpretation Project the voice Amplify the voice Emphasize your conclusion 精品文档 Delivery by Shanna Brainard Quote 3: “…take up the relevant facts—or what seem to be the facts—about him in order to say on the basis of these if there is evidence of something honorable or shameful when we are praising or blaming; and of something just or unjust when we are accusing or defending; and of something advantageous or harmful when we are advising.” (pg 188) 精品文档 Interpretat