The ethics of rhetoric

by Richard M. Weaver

Copyright 1953 by Henry Regnery Company. Copyright under International
Copyright Union. Manufactured in the United States
of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53-8796.

Second Printing, December, 1963

Table of Contents

		PAGE
I.	The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric	[3]
II.	Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee	[27]
III.	Edmund Burke and the Argument from Circumstance	[55]
IV.	Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition	[85]
V.	Some Rhetorical Aspects of Grammatical Categories	[115]
VI.	Milton’s Heroic Prose	[143]
VII.	The Spaciousness of Old Rhetoric	[164]
VIII.	The Rhetoric of Social Science	[186]
IX.	Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric	[211]
	Index	[233]

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments with thanks are due the following: Charles Scribner’s Sons for the passage from Allen Tate’s “The Subway,” from Poems 1922-1947; Karl Shapiro and Random House, Inc., for the passage from Essay on Rime; and the Viking Press, Inc., for the passage from Sherwood Anderson’s A Story Teller’s Story.

The ethics of
Rhetoric