Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between classical rhetoric, dialectic, and communication ethics. In particular, I argue that the commonplace tradition provides us with viable resources for keeping the conversation going in postmodernity. I relate Walter J. Ong’s analytic, cumulative, and special commonplaces to the work of Ronald C. Arnett. Ultimately, commonplaces can serve as rhetorical and dialectical means for contending with the cult of expertise, which tends to drown out other voices in contemporary discourse. Commonplaces can be utilized to sort through the relative goodness of competing goods. I conclude the article by gesturing at the significance of Plato’s and Aristotle’s work for contemporary communication ethics scholarship.
Source: The journal of dialogic ethics :
DOI: 10.5840/jde2024315
Author: Justin N. Bonanno
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4401651271