Trivium · III
Rhetoric
Truth does not speak for itself; someone must speak it, to these hearers, at this hour. Rhetoric is the art of doing so fittingly — and of noticing when it is being done to you.
I. What the Studium has
No demonstration yet
No demonstration exists for this art yet. What the Studium has of it is the Institute's lectures, the pictures in the galleries, the shelf and the Atlas.
II. From the Seven Pillars
Rhetoric: Empowering Truth: the six lectures on this art in the Institute’s certificate course, given on artsofliberty.org and heard there.
- 1Why Rhetoric?
- 2The Forest of Rhetoric
- 3The Canons of Rhetoric
- 4Style
- 5Opinion Rules
- 6Rhetoric and Education
III. In the galleries
- Philosophy and the Seven Liberal ArtsFrom the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, Twelfth century
- The Seven Liberal ArtsFrancesco Pesellino, Painted in the artist’s lifetime, 1422–1457
- The Seven Liberal Arts Persecuted by Pluto and BacchusJost Amman, Sixteenth century
- The Seven Liberal ArtsVirgilius Solis, Sixteenth century
- Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to BoethiusCoëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop), 1460–1470
IV. In the Library
- Rhetorical AnalysisArts of Liberty · Teaching Tool
V. In the Atlas
- CiceroEloquence and civic life
- Founding DocumentsA people argues itself into being
- Dorothy SayersRecovering the tools of learning
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