Kames's Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism.
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2005Author
Innocenti, Beth
Publisher
University of California Press
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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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.
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Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Kames's Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism." Rhetorica 23 (2005): 239-59.
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