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Rogerian Argument
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Can compassion facilitate successful argument?
Practice
Read the following article by Michael Kinsley. What steps in the process described by Hairston do you find?
"Racial Profiling at the Airport: Discrimination We're Afraid to Be Against": http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/readme/2001/09/racial_profiling_at_the_airport.html
Unlike Aristotle's Greece . . .
no longer a shared worldview ("ethos" is no longer a given)
- "From time immemorial, the tribe or the community or the nation or the culture has agreed upon what constitutes the real world. To be sure, different tribes and different cultures might have held sharply different world views, but at least there was a large, relatively unified group which felt assured in its knowledge of the world and the universe, and knew that this perception was true" (Rogers, qtd. in Rottenberg 12).
Rogerian Argument
Maxine Hairston, composition theorist
applied Rogers' theory to composition:
- "Value judgments tend to freeze people into the status quo and make them commit themselves to a stand, and almost inevitably once a person takes a position on an issue, even one as trivial as the merits of a movie or of daylight-saving time, the possibility of his listening to a dissenting point of view with an open mind diminishes. Instead of wanting to hear both sides, he goes on the defensive and becomes more concerned about justifying his own opinion than understanding someone else's point of view" (Hairston, qtd. in Rottenberg 13).
- Carl Rogers, 20th c. humanistic psychologist
- most helpful therapy involved dialogue between two parties
- required listening and honest attempt at understanding
- nonconfrontational
Hairston's 5 Steps to Rogerian Argument:
- 1. Start with a short, objective overview of the issue.
- 2. Produce a neutral summary of the opposition's position. Should show that you understand their interests. No hostility.
- 3. Produce an objective statement of your own side. Avoid loaded language or hints of superiority.
- 4. Establish the common ground, the mutual concerns that both sides share. If the sides are irreconcilable, explain why this is so.
- 5. Propose a solution, pointing out what both sides have to gain from this solution.
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