On foresight functions of rhetorical invention in acts of counselling

Maria Joanna Gondek

doi:10.18290/rf22703.7

Maria Joanna Gondek John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9005-1623

Keywords: practical cognition, foresight, the rhetoric of counsel, invention, inventive factors, counselling actities

Abstract

Counselling acts consist in indicating useful activities, remedying human deficiencies. Counselling acts are guided by practical cognition. Since counselling activities are oriented towards the future, their crucial element is foresight. It is cognitive reflection foreseeing the implementation of counselling acts. Counselling acts are actualised in rhetorical and communicational context which is associated with persuasive delivery of counselling content. Belonging to the rhetorical canon, invention disposes of factors that influence the justifying formulation of advisory content. Invention factors introduce the anticipatory determinations and concretisations of counselling content. At rhetorical level, inventive methodology plays anticipatory functions which are convergent with tasks of foresight in practical cognition.

Author Biography

Maria Joanna Gondek, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Dr. habil. Maria Joanna Gondek — The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Journalism and Management, Department of Language, Rhetoric, and Media Law

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