Albrecht von Haller's view of the relationship between rhetoric, literature and truth in the context of his time
To Haller the Bernese patrician, rhetoric as the art of persuasion still had a public function. He saw rhetoric and literature as brother 'and sister, both offspring of wit or the imagination, and their primary function as the promotion of truth and virtue rather than mere entertainment. The th...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1983
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