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Wit and Persuasion in Philosophic Courtiership

2020· article· en· W3108668142 on OpenAlex
Ryan McKinnell

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Political Science Reviewer · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClassical Antiquity Studies
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPersuasionRhetoricRhetorical questionPoliticsHatredContext (archaeology)Power (physics)LiteraturePhilosophyEpistemologySociologyPolitical scienceLawArtLinguisticsHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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Despite voluminous ethical writings, the Senecean corpus consists of only two explicit works of political theory, the Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia, which both take both the form of public addresses and relate directly to Seneca’s role as amicus principis. Thus, both the content and the context of these writings represent unique examples of the different rhetorical strategies applied by the philosophic courtier to fulfil their political intention. This essay explores the satirical rhetoric of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, with the intention of examining how the farce and obscenity of the satire demonstrates a distinct form of political persuasion. In presenting the deceased Claudius as a bestial, ignoble figure, the satire seeks to impress upon Nero that a similar abuse of power would deny him the adulation he craved and instead earn him hatred and ridicule. Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis therefore offers an inlet for exploring how political satire can serve as a persuasive hortatory speech in reverse and allows us to judge the effectiveness of  witty rhetoric for inducing political change.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.923
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0020.008
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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.130
GPT teacher head0.380
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it