Tindale Plato's Reasons

Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9555-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tindale, Christopher W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Translations
General Introduction: Inside the City of Reason

Part I: The Logician

Introduction to Part I: Plato and the Intricacies of Logic

1. Socratic Arguments

2. Refutation: The Logic of the Early Dialogues

3. Contentious Arguments: Preconditions for Aristotle’s Theory of “Fallacy” in the Dialogues of Plato

4. Strong Arguments

Part II: The Rhetorician

Introduction to Part II: Plato’s Style

5. Plato’s Attack on Rhetoric: Fractures in the Standard Narrative

6. The Atopic Philosopher

7. Platonic Devices

8. Back in Plato’s Labyrinth: The Rhetorical Challenges of the Republic

9. Rhetoric in the Middle Plato and Beyond

Part III: The Dialectician

Introduction to Part III: A New Dialectic

10. Tracing Dialectic

11. The Song that Dialectic Sings: Methods in the Middle Dialogues

12. The Dialectician

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher W. Tindale is Director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is the author of How We Argue: 30 Lessons in Persuasive Communication and The Anthropology of Argument: Cultural Foundations of Rhetoric and Reason, among other books.