The Role of Ethos in Legal Rhetoric

Corradi, Silvia (2024)

Article / Letter to editor

What is the role of ethos in legal rhetoric? Is it such an etiquette or does it have an aim? I claim that the first option represents a misleading interpretation due to the transit of the concept from Athens to Rome. I support instead an iatrological conception of ethos, which aims to the goal of taking care. Finally, I will propose an example of iatrological ethos that can be found in legal interpretation.

• Baumlin
• ethos
• legal interpretation
• pistis
• rhetoric

• All authors: Corradi, Silvia
• Editor(s): Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
• Date: 2024
• Journal: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
• Pages: 218 - 226
• Conference: 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
• Date: 2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07
• Location: Leiden, The Netherlands