Pragma-Dialectics Meets Virtue

Abstract

There are already relevant discussions proposing that Virtue Argumentation Theory and Pragma-Dialectics are indeed complementary approaches to the argumentative practice. Virtue has once been introduced into the application of critical rules and other second-order conditions (Gascòn 2017a). In a similar vein, this paper continues to find more places concerning the arguers’ state of mind that can be supplemented by virtue approach. First, I will consider some other “inner” obstacles which could be better addressed with the requirement of virtue. Second, to some extent, we will try to make a new interpretation on the theoretical results of fallacies analyzed by rules from a fresh virtue perspective.