Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: As professor of Latin eloquence at the University of Naples, Vico instructed young students in the principles of rhetoric joined with the principles of Roman jurisprudence. Vico understood the art of rhetoric as based in the art of topics and the art of memory. The places of memory reside in the sensus communis, which is the treasure-house of the images and meanings that underlie the life of all nations. Vico, like Shaftesbury, defines sensus communis as "communal sense," the shared sensibilities that exist among a given people, and ultimately among the whole human race. These common sensibilities are the source required for the construction of arguments in all types of rhetoric, including forensic rhetoric. For Vico, sensus communis is the key to the interconnection of rhetoric and jurisprudence.
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Author: Ilin Bayer Thora
Institution: Illinois Institute of Technology
Language: English
Topic: Giambattista Vico and Joyce
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1593245418