Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

Abstract

Like logic, rhetoric used to be one branch of learning which attracted a lot of scholars. However, with the development of natural sciences, the role of logic in science has become more and more prominent, but, in contrast, the importance of rhetoric has declined. The advent of hermeneutics has brought new life to rhetoric. Rhetoric plays an important role not only in the seeking of truth and virtue, but in the discussion of beauty as well. Consequently, rhetoric is now undergoing an unprecedented resurge and development. Thus the dominant position of logic is now being threatened, and rhetoric is not an auxiliary to but instead the core of philosophy.