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cover next page > title: Appeal to Pity : Argumentum Ad Misericordiam SUNY Series in Logic and Language author: Walton, Douglas N. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 0791434621 print isbn13: 9780791434628 ebook isbn13: 9780585062198 language: English subject Appeal to pity (Logical fallacy) publication date: 1997 lcc: BC175.W32 1997eb ddc: 160 subject: Appeal to pity (Logical fallacy) cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_i next page > Page i Appeal to Pity < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii SUNY Series in Logic and Language John T Kearns, Editor < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Appeal to Pity Argumentum ad Misericordiam Douglas Walton State University of New York Press < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1997 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Production by E. Moore Marketing by Fran Keneston Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walton, Douglas N. Appeal to pity = Argumentum ad misericordiam / Douglas Walton. p. cm. (SUNY series in logic and language) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3461-3 (hard : alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3462-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Appeal to pity (Logical fallacy) I. Title. II. Series. BC175.W32 1997 160dc20 96-35821 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 < previous page page_iv next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_v next page > Page v For Karen, with love. < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_ii next page > < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii 1. The Textbook Treatment 1 2 1. Irrelevance 5 2. Appeal to Pity as Inherently Fallacious 7 3. Not All Cases Fallacious? 11 4. Legal Cases 15 5. The Student's Plea Case 20 6. Excuses as Arguments 22 7. Charitable Appeals 26 8. Argument from Consequences 28 9. Judging the Fallacious Cases 31 10. Summary 2. Historical Background 35 35 1. Origins in the Modern Textbooks 38 2. Earliest Known Origins of Ad Misericordiam 41 3. Ancient Use as a Courtroom Tactic 45 4. Socrates' Rejection of Appeal to Pity 48 5. Aristotle on Appeal to Pity (Eleos) 51 6. The Stoic Condemnation of Pity 54 7. The Christian View of Pity 57 8. Sympathy as an Ethical Concept 59 9. Early Modern Views of Pity 61 I0. Terminological Questions < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii 3. Identifying the Ad Misericordiam As a Type of Argument 64 65 1. The Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy 69 2. Negative Attitudes Towards Pity 73 3. A Definition of Pity 78 4. Mercy and Pity 81 5. A Pragmatic Concept of Empathy 84 6. A Definition of Sympathy 88 7. Compassion and Pity 90 8. The Speech on Health Security 93 9. Classification of the Types of Appeals 97 10. What's in a Name? 4. The Structure of the Argument 101 101 1. Arguments from Negative Consequences 103 2. Arguments from Need for Help 105 3. Argument from Distress 107 4. Charitable Appeals to Pity 109 5. Practical Reasoning 111 6. Evaluating Practical Reasoning 115 7. What Deliberation is About 117 8. The Case of Walter the Hardnosed Logician 120 9. Evolutionary Logic of Appeal to Feeling 122 10. Conclusions Summarized 5. The Nayirah Case 127 127 1. Facts of the Case
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