Aristotle's Rhetoric Philosophical Essays

• Other Authors: Furley, David J. (Editor), Nehamas, Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2016
• Series: PRINCETON LEGACY LIBRARY
• Subjects: Aristotle > Rhetoric > Congresses; Philosophy > history; Rhetoric, Ancient
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• Item Description: Silibus PUU-APB (LG241)_Mesy.8; "Proceedings of the twelfth Symposium Aristotelicum."
• Physical Description: xv, 322 pages 25 cm
• ISBN: 9780691632971

In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology. This volume, composed of essays by internationally renowned philosophers and classicists, provides the first extensive examination of Aristotle's Rhetoric and its subject matter in many years. One aim is to locate both Aristotle's treatise and its subject within the more general context of his philosophical treatment of other disciplines, including moral and political theory as well as poetics. The contributors also seek to illuminate the structure of Aristotle's own conception of rhetoric as presented in his treatise. The first section of the book, which deals with the arguments of rhetoric, contains essays by M. F. Burnyeat and Jacques Brunschwig.