# The ethics of rhetoric

Author: Weaver, Richard M., 1910-1963

Genre: Category: Language & Communication

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68421

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+ethics+of+rhetoric+Weaver&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Our subject begins with the threshold difficulty of defining the question which Plato’s _Phaedrus_ was meant to answer. Students of this justly celebrated dialogue have felt uncertain of its unity of theme, and the tendency has been to designate it broadly as a discussion of the ethical and the beautiful. The explicit topics of the dialogue are, in order: love, the soul, speechmaking, and the spoken and written word, or what is generally termed by us “composition.” The development looks random, and some of the most interesting passages appear _jeux d’esprit_. The richness of the literary art diverts attention from the substance of the argument.

## Chapters

- [Chapter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ethics-of-rhetoric-68421/chapters/6/index.md)