The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy

Abstract

Makes accessible to modern readers 17th-century rhetorics Thomas Hobbes (15881677) Bernard (16401715) Hobbes A Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation Aristotle s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes sense rhetoric as a central instrument self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in hearer, Briefe looks forward to Hobbes great political works De Cive and Leviathan. Published anonymously in France as De l art de parler, Lamy s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as The Art Speaking. Lamy s long association with Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with Jesuits during last half 17th century.

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