HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ambivalence, Tyrant, Oresteia
31 Mar 2017
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Cohen: rhetoric, litigation, and valued of an agonistic society. Consider background of social values which participants brought to judicial processes. Important in athens because neither judges / litigants had any formal legal training. Athenian litigation depended on arguments about statutory interpretation or legal doctrine. Aristotle describes types of arguments appropriate in different kinds of judicial cases. Descriptions of commonly held values and attitudes (emotions, character, virtue, etc) Legal rhetoric draws upon understanding of shared moral judgments of audience. Rhetoric is merely the discovery of the means of persuasion available in a particular case . Depend on ability to anticipate moral reactions and judgements of the community. Aristotle claims the men respond with anger to cases committed before 5 classes of people. Men"s social world consist of: rivals, those whom they admire, those by whom they would like to be admired, those whom they respect, those who respect them.
