Kames’s Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism

Beth Innocenti Manolescu

doi:10.1353/rht.2005.0007

Rhetorica Jun 2005

Kames’s Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism

Beth Innocenti Manolescu

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Scholars have seldom explored relationships among Lord Kames’s legal career and writings and Elements of Criticism. After considering why Kames did not write a rhetoric of legal advocacy, I argue that Kames’s legal career and writings offered precedents for Elements in three areas: fulfilling social aspirations, using principles of human nature for pedagogical purposes, and using a mode of reasoning that involved abstracting principles from particular cases. I provide a more complete understanding of the Elements and suggest that aims and methods of Scots law may have penetrated eighteenth-century Scottish rhetorics more broadly.

Journal: Rhetorica
Published: 2005-06-01
DOI: 10.1353/rht.2005.0007
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Topics: rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy
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