{"title":"Chinese Argument from Qi 氣 and the Place of Ethos in the Kisceral Mode","authors":"Jianfeng Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10503-025-09656-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The invention of the term <i>kisceral</i> by Michael Gilbert opens a vast field of human communication that correlates to the intuitive, the religious, the spiritual, the imaginative, and the mystical. However, the ingenuity of the coinage <i>kisceral</i> seems to be inherent with problems, i.e. linguistic fuzziness originating from the Japanese loanword, and conceptual ambiguity of argument from ethos, which are subject to endless reinterpretation by Michael Gilbert himself and others. The source of the problems comes partly from the Japanese loanword <i>ki </i>気 and partly from the contemporary readings of the Aristotelian mode of arguing from ethos. A case-based close reading of <i>zhengqi ge</i> 正氣歌 (<i>The Song of the Righteous Qi</i>) speaks to the long tradition of Chinese philosophy of <i>qi</i> 氣, from which originates the argument from ethos, and argument from sign that centers on the power of judgment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46219,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation","volume":"39 2","pages":"279 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Argumentation","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10503-025-09656-1","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The invention of the term kisceral by Michael Gilbert opens a vast field of human communication that correlates to the intuitive, the religious, the spiritual, the imaginative, and the mystical. However, the ingenuity of the coinage kisceral seems to be inherent with problems, i.e. linguistic fuzziness originating from the Japanese loanword, and conceptual ambiguity of argument from ethos, which are subject to endless reinterpretation by Michael Gilbert himself and others. The source of the problems comes partly from the Japanese loanword ki 気 and partly from the contemporary readings of the Aristotelian mode of arguing from ethos. A case-based close reading of zhengqi ge 正氣歌 (The Song of the Righteous Qi) speaks to the long tradition of Chinese philosophy of qi 氣, from which originates the argument from ethos, and argument from sign that centers on the power of judgment.
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Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal. Its aim is to gather academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, rhetoric (classical and modern), linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, logic (formal and informal), critical thinking, history and law. Its scope includes a diversity of interests, varying from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics. Argumentation publishes papers, book reviews, a yearly bibliography, and announcements of conferences and seminars.To be considered for publication in the journal, a paper must satisfy all of these criteria:1. Report research that is within the journals’ scope: concentrating on argumentation 2. Pose a clear and relevant research question 3. Make a contribution to the literature that connects with the state of the art in the field of argumentation theory 4. Be sound in methodology and analysis 5. Provide appropriate evidence and argumentation for the conclusions 6. Be presented in a clear and intelligible fashion in standard English
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