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A Rhetoric of Motives: Traditional Principles of Rhetoric Part 6

Hello, fellow scholars and lovers of rhetoric! 📚🎙️

I’m Dr. Bobby, “The Best Assistant Professor Who Never Was,” and today we’re diving deeper into Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives. This episode explores Burke’s concept of disassociation—a strategy for breaking associations in order to uncover deeper motives behind actions.

We’ll also discuss: ✔️ The scholar’s quest to identify and address gaps in knowledge ✔️ Burke’s take on fact vs. abstraction in rhetorical commonplaces ✔️ How nominalism and realism shape our understanding of truth ✔️ The purity spectrum of motives and its implications in rhetoric ✔️ A villainous case study featuring

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