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Outward, Visible Propriety - Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-century British Rhetorics (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Outward, Visible Propriety - Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-century British Rhetorics (Hardcover, New ed.)
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
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This is a study in practical applications of Stoic philosophy for a
turbulent modern world.In her examination of the eighteenth-century
transition from classical to modern perspectives in British
rhetorical theory, Lois Peters Agnew argues that this shift was
significantly shaped by resurgent influences of Stoic ethical
philosophy. Eager to preserve the stability jeopardized by changing
political, social, and economic conditions, theorists of the period
found in the Stoic principle of sensus communis the possibility of
constructing a collective identity across a fragmented society. To
that end, Agnew states, prominent rhetoricians turned to the works
of the Roman Stoics and to their ethical system as adapted in the
writings of Cicero and Quintilian in particular.Familiarity with
ancient thought enabled British rhetoricians to craft from Stoic
ideas distinctly eighteenth-century perspectives on how rhetoric
could not only accomplish specific practical goals but also prepare
individuals to fulfill their ethical potential to the community.
This private and public mission is best illustrated through the
development of four important rhetorical concepts during the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - common sense, taste,
sympathy, and propriety - each of which supports the broader Stoic
objectives of individual vision and civic harmony. Through these
concepts Stoicism offered eighteenth-century thinkers a forum for
envisioning the ethical interplay of individual experience,
collective judgment, and civic responsibility.
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