A Friendly Companion To Plato S Gorgias

Author : George Kimball Plochmann,Franklin Edward Robinson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0809314045

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A Friendly Companion to Plato's Gorgias by George Kimball Plochmann,Franklin Edward Robinson Pdf

A comprehensive study of "one of the most elusive and subtle" of all the Platonic dialogues. The Gorgias begins with a discussion of the nature and value of rhetoric and develops into an impassioned argument for the primacy of absolute right (as expressed by conscience) in the regulation of both public and private life. Plochmann and Robinson closely analyze this great dialogue in the first two-thirds of their book, turning in the final four chapters to a broader discussion of its unity, sweep, and philosophic implications.

Author : James P. Zappen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484906

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The Rebirth of Dialogue by James P. Zappen Pdf

Dialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin's dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital.

Author : Devin Stauffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 052185847X

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The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias' by Devin Stauffer Pdf

This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C061077906

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The Gorgias of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato,Donald J. Zeyl
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872200167

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Gorgias by Plato,Donald J. Zeyl Pdf

"This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination when it comes to such a master of prose and philosophical argument as Plato. Because of this the book is suitable for courses at all levels in philosophy, from introductory courses on Plato, or problems in Philosophy, to graduate seminars." -- Gerasimos Santas, Teaching Philosophy

Author : Michael S. Kochin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271075624

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Five Chapters on Rhetoric by Michael S. Kochin Pdf

Michael Kochin’s radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence—to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of a mob. Five Chapters on Rhetoric explores our path to things through our judgments of character and action. It shows how speech and writing are used to defend the fabric of social life from things or facts. Finally, Kochin shows how the art of rhetoric aids us in clarifying things when we speak to communicate, and helps protect us from their terrible clarity when we speak to maintain our connections to others. Kochin weaves together rhetorical criticism, classical rhetoric, science studies, public relations, and political communication into a compelling overview both of persuasive strategies in contemporary politics and of the nature and scope of rhetorical studies.

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198854357

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The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Ancient and Medieval World by Jon Stewart Pdf

The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Ancient and Medieval World: An Interpretation of Western Civilization represents a combination of different genres: cultural history, philosophical anthropology, and textbook. It follows a handful of different but interrelated themes through more than a dozen texts that were written over a period of several millennia and, by means of an analysis of these texts, presents a theory of the development of Western civilization from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The main line of argument traces the various self-conceptions of different cultures as they developed historically, reflecting different views of what it is to be human. The thesis of the volume is that through examination of these changes we can discern the gradual emergence of what we today call inwardness, subjectivity, and individual freedom. As human civilization took its first tenuous steps, it had a very limited conception of the individual. Instead, the dominant principle was that of the wider group: the family, clan, or people. Only in the course of history did the idea of what we now know as individuality begin to emerge, and it took millennia for this idea to be fully recognized and developed. The conception of human beings as having a sphere of inwardness and subjectivity subsequently had a sweeping impact on all aspects of culture, including philosophy, religion, law, and art: indeed, this notion largely constitutes what is today referred to as modernity. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that this modern conception of human subjectivity was not simply something given, but rather the result of a long process of historical and cultural development.

Author : Richard O. Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351553995

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Plato and Modern Law by Richard O. Brooks Pdf

This audacious collection of modern writings on Plato and the Law argues that Plato's work offers insights for resolving modern jurisprudential problems. Plato's dialogues, in this modern interpretation, reveal that knowledge of the functions of law, based upon intelligible principles, can be reformulated for relevance to our age. Leading interpreters of Plato: Vlastos, Hall, Strauss, Weinrib, Annas, and Morrow, are included in the collection. The editor supplies an insightful introduction and extensive bibiography to the collection.

Author : Devin Stauffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139448918

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The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias' by Devin Stauffer Pdf

Stauffer demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias through a careful analysis of the dialogue's three main sections. This includes Socrates' famous argumentative duel with Callicles, a passionate critic of justice and philosophy, showing how the seemingly disparate themes of rhetoric, justice and the philosophic life are woven together into a coherent whole. His interpretation of the Gorgias sheds new light on Plato's thought, showing that Plato and Socrates had a more favourable view of rhetoric than is usually supposed. Stauffer also challenges common assumptions concerning the character and purpose of some of Socrates' most famous claims about justice. Written as a close study of the Gorgias, Stauffer also treats broad questions concerning Plato's moral and political psychology and uncovers the view of the relationship between philosophy and politics that guided Plato as he wrote his dialogues.

Author : Robin Reames
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226567013

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Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory by Robin Reames Pdf

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.

Author : J. Clerk Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108729126

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Plato's Gorgias by J. Clerk Shaw Pdf

"This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice"--

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315404127

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The History and Theory of Rhetoric by James A. Herrick Pdf

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds. Students gain a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. This new 6th edition includes greater attention to non-Western studies, as well as contemporary developments such as the rhetoric of science, feminist rhetoric, the rhetoric of display, and comparative rhetoric. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today’s students.

Author : Curtis N. Johnson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739109820

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Socrates and the Immoralists by Curtis N. Johnson Pdf

Socrates and the Immoralists assembles an in-depth exploration of Socrates' argument for the just life, focusing specifically on the dialogues with the "immoralists" Polus, Callicles, and Thrasymachus, and illuminates the complexities of Socrates' thought, showing the interplay of the seemingly contradictory parts of Socrates' ambition, ultimately vindicating the overall coherence of his views.

Author : Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609173388

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The Sacrifice of Socrates by Wm. Blake Tyrrell Pdf

When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public’s blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as René Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato’s Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society, while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos figure, the human drug through whom Plato can dispense his philosophical remedies. With tremendous insight and satisfying complexity, this book analyzes classical texts through the lens of Girard’s mimetic mechanism.

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226069180

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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis by Daniel Boyarin Pdf

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin’s notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.An innovative advancement in rabbinic studies, as well as a bold and controversial new way of reading Plato, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on thought and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.