{"id":378,"date":"2015-10-20T21:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/?p=378"},"modified":"2015-10-20T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:33:41","slug":"goal-of-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2015\/10\/goal-of-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goal of Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-379\" src=\"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Fitting Words: Classical Rhetoric for the Christian Student\" width=\"259\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Fitting-Wrods-1-1-302x300.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;According to the great Roman orator Cicero, the threefold goal of rhetoric is \u201cto teach, to move, and to delight.\u201d Now, these three goals line up with singular appropriateness to the three standards of truth, goodness, and beauty. Effectiveness in rhetoric can be measured against our ability to teach men the truth, to move men to goodness, and to delight men with beauty \u2013 and by beauty we mean verbal beauty, the beauty of a pleasing poem or a well-turned phrase. Effective speaking and writing is informative, powerful, and elegant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/logiccurriculum.com\" target=\"_blank\">James Nance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadsmedia.com\/courses\/fitting-words\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fitting Words: Classical Rhetoric for the Christian Student<\/a> (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the great Roman orator Cicero, the threefold goal of rhetoric is \u201cto teach, to move, and to delight.\u201d Now, these three goals line up with singular appropriateness to the three standards of truth, goodness, and beauty. Effectiveness in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2015\/10\/goal-of-rhetoric\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[133,131,132],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rhetoric","tag-classical-rhetoric","tag-fitting-words","tag-james-nance","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}