Critical Thinking: Rhetorical Devices 1

In this lecture from his Fayetteville State University Critical Thinking class, Dr. Sadler introduces several rhetorical devices used to produce persuasion and to skew perceptions positively or negatively. He addresses euphemism, dysphemism, rhetorical definitions and explanations, stereotypes, and innuendo.

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  • @midasphrygia2425
    @midasphrygia24258 жыл бұрын

    Love the class, for my regiment this summer, I will be re-watching every episode, every morning. Better to prepare yourself than, to be not prepared.

  • @siddhantjain6807
    @siddhantjain68074 жыл бұрын

    15 mins into it and this is already so interesting ! Everyone should know this stuff to avoid getting manipulated by media

  • @MohammedAB2030
    @MohammedAB20303 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for uploading. I did really enjoy the class and learned a lot from it.

  • @AlexSage
    @AlexSage6 жыл бұрын

    Thx. Prof. Sadler! wish you a happy & healthy life!!!!!

  • @TheVoiceOfLiberty1
    @TheVoiceOfLiberty18 жыл бұрын

    I stumbled upon this class and I am extremely glad I did so

  • @AlexSage

    @AlexSage

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lucius Vorenus try also Your Deceptive Mind by Prof. Steven Novella... people won’t be able to lie to you... you’ll identify fraud on time if you add those lenses to your thinking scope... =))

  • @RyjinVee
    @RyjinVee2 жыл бұрын

    Ohh dang! Love Dr., Sadler's work - his online lectures have gotten me through 3 years of philosophy! I'm very stoked to find him talking about rhetoric - what is this, a crossover episode?

  • @angelahatfield5683
    @angelahatfield56832 жыл бұрын

    A sincere compliment is medicine . And it makes that person see something good about themselves when they may not see the beauty of themselves at a critical moment.

  • @RyanEllisBoyd
    @RyanEllisBoyd11 жыл бұрын

    I write plays and screenplays and love rhetoric and rhetorical devices. This lecture was a pleasure, a privilege and a joy. Dr Sadler, thank you.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Well, rhetoric and philosophy can work very well together -- they do for Aristotle and for Cicero, who make some major contributions to both fields, and saw the two disciplines as able to contribute to each other.

  • @limitless1692
    @limitless16925 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture I love it Thanks for the upload :)

  • @briankelly1817
    @briankelly18179 жыл бұрын

    I watched all the Critical Thinking videos by Dr. Sadler I could find on KZread. I even bought and perused the book he used to teach with in this video. It helped me to get a lot better at thinking more critically, that is, think smarter. Thanks Dr. Sadler!

  • @fadwael3562

    @fadwael3562

    8 жыл бұрын

    What's the title of this book? tnx in advance

  • @isillor529

    @isillor529

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Fadwa El good use of "thx in advance" to try to get him to do something he wasn't going to do before. failed anyways....but good use. ;)

  • @fadwael3562

    @fadwael3562

    8 жыл бұрын

    +jim gordon Unfortunately...

  • @briankelly1817

    @briankelly1817

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Fadwa El It's called "Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking" I can't remember what edition it is. PS, look at the other comments, because I previously wrote the title of the book in the comment section a while ago, which Dr. Sadler graciously had written me. Hope that helps!

  • @iiwi758

    @iiwi758

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Fada Darksmen Thank you!

  • @maryliedtojoseph
    @maryliedtojoseph11 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture! You can see how rhetoric is used everyday not just by friends and family, but also by government and religion.

  • @snooze1025
    @snooze10255 жыл бұрын

    watching this in passing while i contemplate how to write a rhetorical essay. very nice lecture

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler12 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure how I implied that I see it as a better diet in any real sense of the term -- other than providing a bit more protein and calcium. It was certainly seen as a "better" one by those who shifted to it, until they started seeing side effects. And, it seems to have resulted in bigger kids. But, yes, meat/dairy is not necessarily better (or worse) than a traditional Japanese (or any other veg/fish strong) diet -- really depends on quality of the food, I think

  • @amandamedellin1889
    @amandamedellin18897 жыл бұрын

    Using KZread to study for the Cset. This video is so helpful. I am ready! :)

  • @eymendakak
    @eymendakak2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your amazing explanations

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks very much! And, since you brought it up, I'm actually planning on developing an online course (with many improvements and additions) in Critical Thinking this coming Fall. If by the Trivium, you mean a foundation in three of the traditional liberal arts -- Grammar (which included Literature), Rhetoric (which included some Psychology) and Dialectic (not just Logic, but Inquiry) -- I'm definitely in favor of that.

  • @BDZiomek
    @BDZiomek12 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Hope you get an online class going on critical thinking. That would be awesome.

  • @monsterjazzlicks
    @monsterjazzlicks7 жыл бұрын

    I only wanted a quick thumbnail example of RHETORICAL and I ended up watching the entire video! ;-) Good stuff.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    We were using Moore and Parker's "Critical Thinking"

  • @virnan
    @virnan5 жыл бұрын

    What clear explanations he makes.

  • @augustusg857
    @augustusg8579 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this with us.

  • @AlexSage
    @AlexSage6 жыл бұрын

    Good thing they recorded the lectures... I learned all of these from Walter Armstrong @ Duke... but this guy teaches very easy... excellent teacher! Armstrong was easy too... Here I’m just more relaxed...

  • @Jacois
    @Jacois2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video.

  • @seans4893
    @seans48932 жыл бұрын

    Dr Sadler is awesome.

  • @alexnil1230
    @alexnil12306 жыл бұрын

    you should record more classes and upload it, it would help random people as well your students who missed class or want hear them again

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    The coffee cup looks to be in my hands. Are you asking where it is from? Oshkosh, WI, where my sister was a student

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @MilknCheeseBunnie
    @MilknCheeseBunnie11 жыл бұрын

    It starts slow but turned out pretty informative. Thanks for the lecture!

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    @Areopagitican: simple answer to that one. In classical Greek, "u" is pronounced "oo," so when I'm pronouncing Greek-derived words, I tend to pronounce the "U"s that way

  • @TheGymfluence
    @TheGymfluence6 жыл бұрын

    anyone have a summary, or key points of what was gone over?

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler12 жыл бұрын

    Well, some of them at least. If you like the videos from this course, I've got Ethics and Intro to Philosophy course videos over on my own KZread channel -- now being taught at Marist College, after I left FSU

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    A valuable skill. . . .

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Well, the logos part of rhetoric is what it also -- from an Aristotelian perspective -- has in common with dialectic, and with logic (broadly conceived). It's not coming solely from rhetoric

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    I can get by with French or German, but my languages I mainly use for reading -- so those would include Latin and Classical Greek

  • @joshsteely2181
    @joshsteely21814 жыл бұрын

    Well, this is neat. Thanks!

  • @jacobwcraig
    @jacobwcraig11 жыл бұрын

    I think we have a difference in terms. I see rhetoric as making argument based on occasion/situation, audience, and a mix of commonplace knowledge and special knowledge. Also, in my view, language varies in value in degree and type across readings, viewings, or hearings an argument. So to say that language is neutral is approaching language from a very different intellectual position. I'm not sure what isn't based in language of some kind - whether it is a visual or auditory/textual language.

  • @JijonmajicoSC2
    @JijonmajicoSC26 жыл бұрын

    There are more places where horse is eaten normally. In Slovenia you can find it in fast foods open 24/7 :) And that's just what I know of!

  • @jacobwcraig
    @jacobwcraig11 жыл бұрын

    What about the inartistic (factual) proof or logos as a rhetorical appeal?

  • @MrAngryman69
    @MrAngryman6911 жыл бұрын

    Well that story about Socrates persuading someone; I saw it on Empires on PBS. I would consider rhetoric a tool in that it a tool can be misused, used differently, or used in the proper manner. Basically, rhetoric could be compatible but not always and in every situation. What do you think of this?

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    You're very welcome -- if you like this stuff, check out my personal channel, where I've got 25+ videos on various topics, texts, and thinkers in Philosophy

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын

    Depends on which teacher you chose, I suspect

  • @sosscs
    @sosscs7 жыл бұрын

    dr saddler, i didn't catch the last example you said, the video ended : (

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler12 жыл бұрын

    Well, I think that will have to be something that I produce myself. The place I'm currently teaching doesn't have a CT class.

  • @briankelly1817
    @briankelly181711 жыл бұрын

    I know you said the book you were using was "Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking", but what edition was it? I would really really like to read it and follow along.

  • @mjb14722
    @mjb1472211 жыл бұрын

    I'm studying rhetoric and stumbled upon your video. It's wonderful as usual. By the way, in the 1950's in the US, there was horse meat in the frozen food section, next to the frozen peas. Where's your coffee cup?

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Yes -- Aristotle actually says, in his own work on Rhetoric, that we ought to learn how to use it effectively, since we'll run into it nearly everywhere -- and it's shameful not to be able to defend ourselves!

  • @Cookiecutter87
    @Cookiecutter8712 жыл бұрын

    Do the prefixes ("eu" and "dys") also apply to the terms utopia and dystopia? I thought they might be, but I am not sure since it is not spelled "eutopia". I like the videos so far, by the way.

  • @ChrisGarrison72
    @ChrisGarrison729 жыл бұрын

    This video helped me a lot.

  • @reasoniocritthinking

    @reasoniocritthinking

    9 жыл бұрын

    Glad to read it. You might check out my channels. My main channel has 600+ philosophy videos. I've also recently started the new channel I'm writing this post from

  • @BDZiomek
    @BDZiomek12 жыл бұрын

    Yea I did mean that Trivium; I am just not sure what the additional inquiry in logic pertains to. By inquiry do you mean extending beyond formal logic and applying logic to material propositions? I was just curious because I recently read a book called "The Trivium" by Sister Miriam Joseph and found her presentation of the Trivium very illuminating. I would be interested in taking an online critical thinking course as well!

  • @muthaluva
    @muthaluva Жыл бұрын

    I have BPD and after a few of Dr. Sadler's sessions, I'm suddenly noticing a lot of flaws in my delivery or verbiage when I'm having a petulant BPD-type episode. I've been in therapy for a year now and have beginner's knowledge of CBT Cognitive Behavior therapy. However, with this tool, I have a bit more to fall back on when my thinking gets stinking or engulfed in my own selfish narratives that make me seem like a bigot and or a real big effing jerk. I trust with continued practice I will stop "Putting things in the worst terms possible." 😍😘I'm curious if this will be like skating now; once you learn it you don't forget. It's only been a couple days now since learning of this channel. I'm hoping this will help me get to a place where I don't have as many or any episodes. 😇

  • @pauls7056
    @pauls70562 жыл бұрын

    Dr Sadler really knows his stuff; better still, he explains it clearly and in an engaging way. Lucky students. Thanks for posting.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler12 жыл бұрын

    Inquiry involves attention to precisely how it is we go about learning, knowing, assessing, etc -- so that takes us way beyond formal, and even most informal logic, which is a tool for inquiry, but not the only one. The history of logic, in fact, is full of attempts to understand the broader category of inquiry A now-classic example of this would be C.S. Pierce's conception of "abduction," which he suggested adding to induction and deduction -- to have a better conception of how we reason

  • @truthseeker1871

    @truthseeker1871

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fair deal. So far I have decided that informal reasoning is just another phrase for deception. How to deceive human beings in so many lessons. I have a professor who has taught me so. That's all the whole course came down to in spades. Deception. How to deceive your neighbor. Despicable.

  • @chilly111

    @chilly111

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@truthseeker1871 A tool can be used for many uses. Of course it's used to deceive or manipulate. But it's also used in the arts and communication, and for protecting yourself from bad arguments, intentional or not.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    It was the 9th edition

  • @clairebox3516
    @clairebox351610 жыл бұрын

    tomorrow is the first day of this course at my college, i hope I din't go wrong in choosing this class

  • @dekitai20
    @dekitai2012 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting that, I enjoyed. One thing though: you seem to imply that the Japanese moving towards a westernized diet is moving towards a "better" diet. More meat and more dairy will indeed increase mass and might cause acne but I certainly doubt it could be qualified as being better nutrition.

  • @Topbitcoinexchanges
    @Topbitcoinexchanges11 жыл бұрын

    What book are you using for this class? I can't seem to figure it out!

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Well, my tone was always good in Mandarin -- unfortunately, I've never put in the kind of time to actually make much progress! I'm a bit lazy

  • @gauravparmarbliss
    @gauravparmarbliss Жыл бұрын

    can someone share the book name?

  • @lyndonbailey3965
    @lyndonbailey39657 жыл бұрын

    can I ask what the textbook is?

  • @bgmiller5
    @bgmiller511 жыл бұрын

    Isn't innuendo just a form of passive-aggression? Or is that the whole point? I've never been one to be passive aggressive.

  • @garrettpatten6312
    @garrettpatten63124 ай бұрын

    12 years ago when you could say common sense things like this without being crucified lol love it!

  • @WMsReligion
    @WMsReligion13 жыл бұрын

    What is the book being used in class?

  • @Mortonc3
    @Mortonc311 жыл бұрын

    As the prof pointed out, rhetoric often appeals to emotion instead of reason. This puts rhetoric at odds with philosophy because philosophy is based in reason instead of emotion.

  • @BDZiomek
    @BDZiomek12 жыл бұрын

    Who needs public speaking courses to fulfill GE courses when you can watch these fine lectures? Thanks for posting these videos Professor! Do you recommend studying the Trivium method to education?

  • @coreyt.rogers9376
    @coreyt.rogers93765 жыл бұрын

    Books to get: The art of rhetoric by Aristotle, the trivium, De oratore by Cicero, how to win an argument. Public Speaking for success by dale Carnegie, the exceptional presenter, the secret language of influence.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler13 жыл бұрын

    We were using Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking. Not a particularly good book, and apparently the 9th and 10th editions are in certain respects inferior to previous editions. So far, I have to say, I've never found a Critical Thinking textbook I could really say I was happy with. . . might have to write my own

  • @MrYahya0101
    @MrYahya010111 жыл бұрын

    Specifically, from Glen Beck.

  • @manchesterfellow
    @manchesterfellow11 жыл бұрын

    Critical thinking involves making arguments for each case - arguments are based in language - rhetoric is a way of using language to tip the favour in one way without adding (or taking away) value to an argument and so it should be studied.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure Socrates persuaded anyone that he was physically handsome. It really depends -- for whether philosophy and rhetoric are compatible or even complementary -- what models one has for the two fields

  • @Kwintessential2
    @Kwintessential29 жыл бұрын

    He has his own channel and is very interesting.

  • @reasoniocritthinking

    @reasoniocritthinking

    9 жыл бұрын

    Thanks (from the second of my channels)

  • @MrAngryman69
    @MrAngryman6911 жыл бұрын

    I could see how rhetoric can be used to persuade a point to someone. I remember hearing of a story where Socrates "persuades" someone to think he is a handsome guy so philosophers have used rhetoric but I guess persuading a point is not always the logical way to explain something. Interesting fact: St. Augustine, an influential philosopher, taught rhetoric.

  • @anonymousQ45
    @anonymousQ4512 жыл бұрын

    makes sense

  • @Blunttalker
    @Blunttalker3 жыл бұрын

    Thx for this. Got any new stuff?

  • @runawaybuns

    @runawaybuns

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try reading "Thank you for arguing" it is a great book that goes WAYYYY in-depth

  • @willboucher9336
    @willboucher933612 жыл бұрын

    The change to climate change is not a euphemism, it is a clarification of terms based on additional evidence.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    A bit. Just a bit

  • @SavageCommentaryOriginal
    @SavageCommentaryOriginal11 жыл бұрын

    big lebowski dropping knowledge

  • @savvageorge
    @savvageorge5 жыл бұрын

    I heard that facial recognition is partly genetic and partly developed when you are a baby. This is why it's easier to recognise the faces of people within your own racial group and why other races can look very similar to each-other.

  • @marrissajones5142
    @marrissajones514210 жыл бұрын

    my AP teacher calls it ree-tohr-ick is that incorrect?

  • @reasoniocritthinking

    @reasoniocritthinking

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Marrissa Jones If he or she has an accent, I suppose it's all right for him or her

  • @ChooseAname495
    @ChooseAname4958 жыл бұрын

    Hey Professor what's the book used for this class? Thank you

  • @ChooseAname495

    @ChooseAname495

    8 жыл бұрын

    Karl Ms Thank you professor, I'm on my way to buy the book "go to hell", who's the author by the way?

  • @ChooseAname495

    @ChooseAname495

    8 жыл бұрын

    Karl Ms hmmm let me see.....could it be by.....the illustrious world renowned professor Karl Ms?

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    Well, like you point out, you get this for free. In order to understand why I'm going so slow with these students, in a required Core course, you might look up FSU and see what level the students it takes in are. Since you're clearly a go-getter, I'll leave that research to you. . .

  • @sultanbaquteba1171
    @sultanbaquteba117110 жыл бұрын

    heeeeeeey guys im Sultan, everybody should listen carefully. Heather's class.

  • @ebermtheburn
    @ebermtheburn2 жыл бұрын

    This man is Leonardo Dicaprio in "don't look up". Took me 33 seconds to realize it.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын

    I see. . . so, by that reasoning, I (and all my peers) can't do critical thinking, eh, since I teach it?

  • @1annluna
    @1annluna5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you this stuff is so confusing.

  • @Lukergamer
    @Lukergamer11 жыл бұрын

    Horse meat is pretty delicious, actually! Great videos.

  • @mr.jamesdavidrobert2115
    @mr.jamesdavidrobert2115 Жыл бұрын

    Chalkboard and cardigan, it’s like teaching at the end of the twentieth century.

  • @MrAngryman69
    @MrAngryman6911 жыл бұрын

    I laughed when someone asked if its on the menu in France.

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    The Big Lebowski, with glasses, and sober at 8:00 in the morning

  • @jacobwcraig
    @jacobwcraig11 жыл бұрын

    Maybe. I prefer to think that rhetoric makes critical thinking possible, or at the very least critical thinking is a function of rhetoric.

  • @SK-le1gm
    @SK-le1gm3 жыл бұрын

    Dysphemisms !!?! Crazy man 👍🏾

  • @vince2nd
    @vince2nd7 жыл бұрын

    Actually feel like i can write an essay now. My teacher is so useless, doesnt even use a book, just wings it each class and gets sidetracked

  • @KalebPace-xk3dk
    @KalebPace-xk3dk Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate this video, so I feel bad but I can only see him as a tube of Dijon mustard.

  • @Vestnesis93
    @Vestnesis9310 жыл бұрын

    I like how he teaches.

  • @reasoniocritthinking

    @reasoniocritthinking

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Rihards Vārna Glad to read it!

  • @GregoryBSadler
    @GregoryBSadler11 жыл бұрын

    I'm that guy -- so, yep

  • @jackeroo75
    @jackeroo752 жыл бұрын

    Euphemism: County Correctional Facility - Jail

  • @BuddhatheBlackDog
    @BuddhatheBlackDog10 жыл бұрын

    rhetoric certainly can derail critical thinking---that's the point.

  • @MilknCheeseBunnie
    @MilknCheeseBunnie11 жыл бұрын

    The Pace of conveying useful information is too slow. I have to keep skipping and fast forwarding to get to the point! It's a good thing I don't have to pay for tuition for this class.

  • @Mortonc3
    @Mortonc311 жыл бұрын

    then you should take a class on critical thinking :P

  • @MrAngryman69
    @MrAngryman6911 жыл бұрын

    Philosophy and rhetoric and at odds? I thought rhetoric is a tool that philosophy can use to promote ideas in a logical way.