Recovering the rhetorical tradition: George Campbell’s Sympathy and its Augustinian roots

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dc.contributor.authorFehler, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-11T17:06:03Z
dc.date.available2023-09-11T17:06:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionArticle originally published by the RAE: Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, 5, 88–112. English. Published online 2015 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol5/iss1/10
dc.description.abstractThe year 1776 saw the production of two important documents of the Enlightenment: the US Constitution and George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Both documents were products of Enlightenment thought, and both demonstrate the conflicting attitudes in the era toward the rhetorical use of emotional appeals. Recent scholarship by John Witte examines the religious roots of the anti-emotionalist rhetoric expressed by Federalist politicians in the Constitutional era and in particular the influence of the Calvinist clergy of New England, with their "Puritan covenantal theory of ordered liberty and orderly pluralism:' Like the Federalists who were in charge of the new US government, the Calvinists of New England not only celebrated the victory achieved in the Revolution but also worked to ensure that the new American republic did not descend into the kind of chaos that later consumed revolutionary France.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThis is the published version of an article that is available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol5/iss1/10. Recommended citation: Fehler, B. (2015). Recovering the rhetorical tradition: George Campbell’s Sympathy and its Augustinian roots. RAE: Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, 5, 88–112. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/15424
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rae/vol5/iss1/10
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherBYU ScholarsArchiveen_US
dc.subjectGeorge Campbellen_US
dc.subjectEnlightenmenten_US
dc.subjectUS Constitutionen_US
dc.subjectRhetorical traditionen_US
dc.titleRecovering the rhetorical tradition: George Campbell’s Sympathy and its Augustinian rootsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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