Plato On The Rhetoric Of Philosophers And Sophists
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Author | : Marina McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780511366703 |
Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.
Author | : Marina McCoy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521175371 |
In this book, Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras. She argues that Plato presents the philosopher and the sophist as difficult to distinguish, insofar as both use rhetoric as part of their arguments. Plato does not present philosophy as rhetoric-free, but rather shows that rhetoric is an integral part of the practice of philosophy.
Author | : Fitzgibbons Chair of Philosophy Marina McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780511367908 |
Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras. She argues that Plato presents the philosopher and the sophist as difficult to distinguish, insofar as both use rhetoric as part of their arguments. Plato does not present philosophy as rhetoric-free, but rather shows that rhetoric is an integral part of philosophy. However, the philosopher and the sophist are distinguished by the philosopher's love of the forms as the ultimate objects of desire. It is this love of the forms that informs the philosopher's rhetoric, which he uses to lead his partner to better understand his deepest desires. McCoy's work is of interest to philosophers, classicists, and communications specialists alike in its careful yet comprehensive treatment of philosophy, sophistry, and rhetoric as portrayed through the drama of the dialogues.
Author | : Robert Wardy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134757301 |
What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate.
Author | : Tushar Irani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107181984 |
This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Author | : Richard Marback |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781570032400 |
In Plato's Dream of Sophistry, Richard Marback shows that Plato's vision was remarkably accurate. Against histories of rhetoric that described Plato's influence mainly in terms of his overarching dominance, Marback argues that Plato's lasting influence results not from the force of the dialogues themselves but from continued investments in arguing about the dialogues.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1585105058 |
This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Author | : Robin Reames |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1611177693 |
A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences, if any, among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term rhetoric (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E. The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts. Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.
Author | : James Henderson Collins II |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190266546 |
This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0486122018 |
Two masterpieces of Plato's later period. The Theaetetus offers a systematic treatment of the question "What is knowledge?" The Sophist follows Socrates' cross-examination of a self-proclaimed true philosopher.