Writing with Andrew | Facts Don't Speak for Themselves. That's What Rhetoric is For. @WritingwithAndrew | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
People often say that they just want the facts, but the reality is that facts by themselves don't tell us as much as we sometimes think. In this video, we review an ancient legal speech by Lysias called "On the Death of Eratosthenes," which details a legal case that couldn't be resolved by facts alone in order to see how rhetoric helps us to solve problems that the facts can't.
0:00 Introduction
2:24 The Facts
4:52 The Problem
6:33 The Defense
9:34 Conclusion
People often say that they just want the facts, but the reality is that facts by themselves don't tell us as much as we sometimes think. In this video, we review an ancient legal speech by Lysias called "On the Death of Eratosthenes," which details a legal case that couldn't be resolved by facts alone in order to see how rhetoric helps us to solve problems that the facts can't.
0:00 Introduction
2:24 The Facts
4:52 The Problem
6:33 The Defense
9:34 Conclusion
