Post #5

Post #5

When implementing rhetorical devices it is important to keep in mind the organizational methods behind the skill.  Aristotle lectured that the proofs to successfully form and present an argument were what appears to fall into a scientific method.  Quintilian claimed that there were four premises that circulated around the senses, general agreement, a child's responsibility to their parents, and things that exist in law or custom. Cicero like many conintued to believe that the ability to correctly present an argument was a representation of the highest class of manhood.  The culmination of these rhetoricians comprise much of the virtue we have lost in rhetoric and not only that but in our personal lives; these men appear to be concerned with the wholistic virtue of a man, rather than his accomplishment in the art and science of rhetoric.