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Download full textZappen, James P. – 1978
Decisive changes in the history of rhetoric occurred with the publication of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" and "De augmentis scientiarum" and "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes. Bacon and Hobbes responded to the problem of eloquence common to scientists in the early seventeenth century, which centered on three…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Intellectual History, Natural Sciences, Persuasive Discourse
Skopec, Eric Wm. – 1982
Eighteenth century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid's emphasis on first principles of knowledge is fundamental to his ethics of rhetoric. Reid found the reduction of mental activities to material phenomena by Hobbes and others to be particularly odious and destructive of common sense. Turning to the analysis of human nature, he developed a radical…
Descriptors: Ethics, Models, Moral Values, Philosophy
