Arguments from Translated Chinese Classics

Abstract

This paper presents a selection of commented argumentative passages from classical Chinese texts. The first section is devoted to the elements that characterize the argumentative situation: the contradiction between two points of view, the necessity of controversy, the choice of partner and the rules of dialogue. The second section focuses on argumentation schemes, analogy, a fortiori, opposites, pragmatic argumentation. This collection is the draft of an open album of commented Chinese passages, intended as a companion to the Dictionary of Argumentation (Plantin 2018).