Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece (Studies in by John Poulakos,Thomas W. Benson
By John Poulakos,Thomas W. Benson
In his dialogue of historical responses to sophistical rhetoric, Poulakos observes that Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle discovered sophistry morally reprehensible, politically dead, and theoretically incoherent. even as, they produced their very own model of rhetoric that encouraged moral integrity, political unification, and theoretical coherence. Poulakos explains that those responses and substitute types have been encouraged by way of a look for ideas to such old difficulties as ethical uncertainty, political instability, and social disease. Poulakos concludes that sophistical rhetoric used to be as invaluable in its day as its Platonic, Isocratean, and Aristotelian opposite numbers have been in theirs.
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