Quandahl, Ellen. “A Feeling for Aristotle A Way to Move

Quandahl, Ellen. “A Feeling for Aristotle: Emotion in the Sphere of Ethics” A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. Eds. Dale Jacobs & Laura R. Micciche. Boyton/CooK: Portsmouth, NH.

“Aristotle.. . .A patient observer and analyst of culture who gives emotion a significant place in living well generally, in ethics and in politics” (12).

“This linking of rhetoric with ethics and moral psychology is historically long-standing” (12). =E

“So in Aristotle there is a significant connection and interplay of emotion with ethics as well as persuasion” (13). =E
And even though that is true, there is little or no mention of guilt. However, it is also proof that those who claim rhetoric shoud be, and has been based on logic alone, are off base” (13). =E

“1. ‘Thumos’ is a social force. Scholars have discovered a crucial hinge between emotions and ethics/politics in a Greek word associated with spirited-ness, and also with heart, or the seat or capacity for emotions, thumos” (13). =B & E.
(Barbara Koziak) “She reminds us of a conundrum in Plato—that, on the one hand, in his mythic, tripartite psychology, reason tames and controls the emotional part, but on the other hand, Plato analogizes philosophy with eros, so that knowing involves desire” (14).

“Koziak and others recognize that Aristotle fully opens this door, giving a significant place to emotion in moral conduct” (14). **=E

“Koziak argues that emotions of the Rhetoric are ‘desires for certain state of social realations’ (2000, 96). The capacity to feel these emotions could also be called a social capacity” (14). **=E

“the survey of emotions in the Rhetoric could be said to examine already developed ways in which people are moved in social situations” (15). **=E

“Rhetoricians have been clear that the realm of rhetoric comprises the messy areas in which judgments must be made even where there is not a precise science of inquiry and where nonexperts have to address complex issues” (16). ** =B & E.

“Cooper points out that the feeling of an emotion includes for Aristotle three central elements: distress or pleasure, its cause by the way things seem to one, and the social dimension that we have already seen—desire for some behavior in response or change in the social situation” (1999, 422)” (17). =B

“deliberate emotional education, then, ought to include deep thought about how institutions teach and manage emotion, and broad opportunities to learn and reflect on what happens when people feel in particular situations” (20). =A

“It is language study that allows us to see what happens when people feel this way, about this person, in this situation” (21).