TY - JOUR AU - Dominicy, Marc PY - 1970/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - L’éloge, le blâme et la représentation discursive des choix éthiques JF - Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio JA - RIFL VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - DO - UR - http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/252 SP - AB - Aristotelian Rhetorical Acts (ARAs) are discourse acts that should Intentionally cause a mental act of the hearer’s in order to be successfully performed and satisfied: the speaker who successfully performs an ARA of advising/warning, accusing/defending, gives at least one of the reasons s/he has for performing this very ARA, and by doing so, s/he provides the hearer with at least one reason for deciding to act or assenting.  Aristotle’s failure to rationalize praise and blame in terms of deliberative advice or warning stems from the very nature, and internal inconsistency, of his ethical theory, but also reflects conflicting intuitions of common sense about the causes and reasons of good or bad actions. ER -