Question

what is an example of the burkean concept transcendence and why? what is an example of casuistic stretching and why?

Answer 1

Burke suggests that whenever someone attempts to persuade someone else, identification occurs, because for persuasion to occur, one party must "identify" with another.That is, the one who becomes persuaded sees that one party is like another in some way.

For example-We need not close our eyes to their almost tyranneous ubiquity in human relations; we can be on the alert always to see how such temptations to strife are implicit in the institutions that condition human relationships; yet we can at the same time always look beyond this order, to the principle of identification in general, a terministic choice justified by the facts that the identifications in the order of love are also characteristic of rhetorical expression.”

Burke discusses two important ideas – that life is drama, and the ultimate motive of rhetoric is the purging of guilt. Burke recognized guilt as the base of human emotions and motivations for action.Humans use language in patterned discourses, and texts move us with recurring patterns underlying those texts.