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The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and AristotleA Somatic Guide\nAuthor(s): Douglas Robinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438461076, 978-1438461076\nSynopsis\nDiscusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.\n\nMencius [tel]/302 BCE) and Aristotle [tel] BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in their conceptions of rhetoric, at least, Mencius and Aristotle are much more similar than different: both are powerfully socio-ecological, espousing and exploring collectivist thinking about the circulation of energy and social value through groups. The agent performing the actions of pistis, \""persuading-and-being-persuade.