First of all, I would like to apologize that this blog goes through long periods of neglect... But I guess it's better late than never.
In last week's class, we talked about argumentation. We especially focused on one type of argumentation called the Mark Antony speech.
This specific type of argumentation, made popular after the speech given by the character of the same name in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, uses a very effective method to convince people: the person speaking must present the arguments of his opponent before giving his own arguments.
He first has to prove his opponent wrong before he can convince the crowd that he is right.
In his famous speech, Mark Antony also insisted a lot on certain obvious statements ("Caesar was ambitious" or "Brutus was an honorable man" for example), all adding to the convincing effect of the speech.
In my opinion, this type of argumentation almost uses a mathematical approach. At least in the structure.
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