Philosophical rhetoric and sophistical dialectic: some implications of Plato’s critique of rhetoric in the Phaedrus and the Sophist

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Authors
Publication date 2003
Host editors
  • J.A. Blair
  • D. Farr
  • H.V. Hansen
  • R.H. Johnson
  • C.W. Tindale
Book title Informal Logic at 25: proceedings of the Windsor Conference
ISBN
  • 0968346138
  • 9780968346136
Event IL@25: Informal Logic and Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference
Pages (from-to) [1-9]
Publisher Windsor, ON: OSSA
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract My PhD research concentrates on the philosophical backgrounds of the relationship between dialectic and rhetoric. In order to pinpoint the discord between both disciplines, I studied their genesis and early history. In this paper, some characteristics of both disciplines will be outlined by sketching the ""invention"" of dialectic by Zeno, that of rhetoric by the Sophists, and the different ways in which Plato and Aristotle have conceived both disciplines and their relationship.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/faculty/arts/philosophy/ILat25/edited_Wagemans_Paper.doc
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