Ernesto Grassi

Ernesto Grassi (May 2, 1902 – December 22, 1991) was an Italian philosopher.

Ernesto Grassi
Prof. Grassi at the lectern in Berlin
Born(1902-05-02)May 2, 1902
Milan, Italy
DiedDecember 22, 1991(1991-12-22) (aged 89)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
NationalityItalian
OccupationPhilosopher

Life

He maintained an intimate friendship with Donald Phillip Verene.[1]

Thought

Grassi sought to take up the Heideggerean Destruktion of metaphysics, grounding his philosophical enterprise instead in the tradition of rhetoric.[2] He identified the Italian humanist tradition as a potential site to begin this development of philosophy, and his works often contain copious references to the Italian humanists. In this tradition, "work and metaphor are the source of human history and society", an approach to thought which must reject the rational, proceeding as it does from "general and necessary premises."[3]

His work Rhetoric as Philosophy is considered as "the first protracted attempt to synthesize Italian humanism with rhetoric, as a source of philosophical invention."[4]

Grassi's theory on Rhetoric and Humanism

Looking at the theory of Ernesto Grassi of rhetoric and humanism, he inherited ideas from the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian to help introduce and assure his theory. Grassi was quite specific when it came to understanding his ideas. He starts with making sure that the "description of nature of rhetoric is to summarize the distinction he draws between critical or rational discourse and topical discourse," (Golden. Berquist, Coleman, & Sprouse. 2011, 307). When it comes to his theory he normally would side with Giambattista Vico (an Italian philosopher, 1668-1744).

There are three primary faculties of true rhetoric:

Ingenium-Most important and essential to the understanding of humanistic tradition. Those who have an issue within this "trait" have issues with traditional humanistic advances within their lives.

Work- This "trait", according to Grassi, helps develop the understanding of need and development of the history of mankind. It allows us to create our imprints of today for the history of tomorrow.

Metaphor-With this, according to Grassi, a person must be able to bring together Ingenium and work making metaphor beneficial for the continuation of growth and development.

Ingenium, Work, and Metaphor is intertwined with knowledge, rationality, language and plays a role in nature.

[5]

gollark: OH WAIT THAT'S ALL "MODERN" APPS.
gollark: Let's write JavaScript which compiles to JS via many, many arcane build tools nobody understands and which everyone just copy-pastes somebody else's config for.
gollark: It shouldn't use the first person.
gollark: 3.
gollark: <@319753218592866315> has 7 letters. There are 7 sides on a heptagon. Sides contains 5 letters. <@319753218592866315> has two legs. 5 - 2 is 3. `gay` has 3 letters. <@319753218592866315> is gay.

References
  1. Timothy Crusius. "New Preface" in Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition. Trans. John Michael Krois and Azizeh Azodi. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
  2. Ernesto Grassi and John Michael Krois. "Italian Humanism and Heidegger's Thesis of the End of Philosophy." Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring, 1980), pp. 79-98.
  3. Ernesto Grassi and John Michael Krois. "Can Rhetoric Provide a New Basis for Philosophizing? The Humanist Tradition." Philosophy & Rhetoric Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 1978.
  4. Thomas B. Farell. Rhetoric Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, (2002), p. 101.
  5. Golden, J. L., Berquist, G. F., Coleman, W. E., & Sproule, J. M. (2011). The rhetoric of Western thought: From the Mediterranean World to the global setting (10th Ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.
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