Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2010

Publication Title

International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Conference 2010

Keywords

emotional arguments, ancient sophism and rhetoric, ancient moral philosophy

Abstract

The prodigious development of argumentation theory over the last three decades has raised many issues that challenge some of the long held assumptions that characterize the traditional study of argument. One of these issues is the role of emotion in argument and argument analysis. While rhetoric has, with its emphasis on persuasion, always recognized that emotions play some role determining which arguments we accept and reject, a long tradition sees appeals to emotion as fallacies that violate the standards of rationality and objectivity reason and argument require.

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