| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) |
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Issues in ancient philosophy |
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Issues in ancient philosophy.
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| Contents |
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: GORGIAS ON WHAT IS NOT Who was Gorgias? -- chapter 2 5 Who was Helen? -- chapter 3 IN DEFENCE OF REASON: PLATO'S GORGIAS -- chapter 4 AFTERLIVES -- chapter 5 ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC: MIGHTY IS THE TRUTH AND IT SHALL PREVAIL? -- chapter 6 EPILOGUE: DOES PHILOSOPHY HAVE A GENDER? -- chapter 12 NOTES -- chapter 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
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? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for others, whenever someone speaks, rhetoric is present.This book is devoted to helping readers understand these rival accounts, by showing how it has happened that there are so many conceptions of rhetoric. Any such approach must be rooted in classical antiquity, since our ideas of rhetoric are t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-195) and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Plato. Gorgias.
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Gorgias, of Leontini.
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| SUBJECT |
Gorgias, of Leontini fast |
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Platon (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.). Gorgias. ram |
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Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). Rhétorique. ram |
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Gorgias, (0483?-0380? av. J.-C.) ram |
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Gorgias (Plato) fast |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Retorica.
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Klassieke oudheid.
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Rhétorique antique.
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Logos (philosophie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
95048938 |
| ISBN |
0203981960 |
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9780203981962 |
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6610144044 |
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9780415146432 |
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0415146437 |
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9786610144044 |
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9781134757251 |
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1134757255 |
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9781134757299 |
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1134757298 |
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9781134757305 |
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1134757301 |
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