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3-6-2009 9:00 AM
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There exists an organic parallel between rhetoric and democratic governance. This parallel can best be called “generative logos”—a term used by the Stoics. This helps explain why emotional motivation can, in democratic arrangements, help create stability. In this sense, it is generative logos that unites Plato and Aristotle on the instructive potential of rhetoric in the context of direct democracy—a political arrangement both philosophers, much like they did rhetoric, viewed as being amorphous.
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There exists an organic parallel between rhetoric and democratic governance. This parallel can best be called “generative logos”—a term used by the Stoics. This helps explain why emotional motivation can, in democratic arrangements, help create stability. In this sense, it is generative logos that unites Plato and Aristotle on the instructive potential of rhetoric in the context of direct democracy—a political arrangement both philosophers, much like they did rhetoric, viewed as being amorphous.
