Between Rhetoric and Philosophy: loci communes in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria
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The rhetoric term loci communes is well-known, but it seems not incontestable concept. Quintilian’s usage of it also reflects a kind of ambiguity of the term. In this paper, however, by lexicographical reviewing some passages of his Institutio oratoria, one can differentiates two (except the mnemonic loci) significant connotations from the context. Firstly, it can be understood as commonplaces in modern sense, which are also called ready-made or set-piece arguments. These loci communes are mainly dealt within the preliminary rhetoric education, in the Book 2. Their origin might be from ancient Greek sophists. Quintilian acknowledges these loci’s advantage for exercising sometimes for the orators, but he seems to oppose indiscreet repetition with trivial skillfulness. On the other hand, the loci communes within the sphere of inventio/ars inveniendi (esp. in the Book 5) are recommended for being capable of finding out argumentative patterns needed to one’s cases. This generalization ability or abstraction method is not discussed in an in-depth analysis, but its significance was recognized by Quintilian following a dialectical-legal tradition from Aristotle to Cicero. Both of two streams from rhetoric and philosophy seems to be united in Quintilian’s education project for his ideal vir bonus dicendi peritus.
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The rhetoric term loci communes is well-known, but it seems not incontestable concept. Quintilian’s usage of it also reflects a kind of ambiguity of the term. In this paper, however, by lexicographical reviewing some passages of his Institutio oratoria, one can differentiates two (except the mnemonic loci) significant connotations from the context. Firstly, it can be understood as commonplaces in modern sense, which are also called ready-made or set-piece arguments. These loci communes are mainly dealt within the preliminary rhetoric education, in the Book 2. Their origin might be from ancient Greek sophists. Quintilian acknowledges these loci’s advantage for exercising sometimes for the orators, but he seems to oppose indiscreet repetition with trivial skillfulness. On the other hand, the loci communes within the sphere of inventio/ars inveniendi (esp. in the Book 5) are recommended for being capable of finding out argumentative patterns needed to one’s cases. This generalization ability or abstraction method is not discussed in an in-depth analysis, but its significance was recognized by Quintilian following a dialectical-legal tradition from Aristotle to Cicero. Both of two streams from rhetoric and philosophy seems to be united in Quintilian’s education project for his ideal vir bonus dicendi peritus.
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