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Sophistical Practice

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823256413
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Sophistical Practice written by Barbara Cassin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A sophistic history of philosophy questions the orthodox philosophical history of philosophy: that of ontology and truth in itself. In this book, we discover unusual Presocratics, wreaking havoc with the fetish of true and false. Their logoi perform politics and perform reality. Their sophistic practice can shed crucial light on contemporary events, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, where, to quote Desmond Tutu, “words, language, and rhetoric do things,” creating things like the new “rainbow people.” Transitional justice requires a consistent and sustainable relativism: not Truth, but truth for, and enough of the truth for there to be a community. Philosophy itself is about words before it is about concepts. Language manifests itself in reality only as multiplicity; different languages perform different types of worlds; and difficulties of translation are but symptoms of these differences. This desacralized untranslatability undermines and deconstructs the Heideggerian statement that there is a historical language of philosophy that is Greek by essence (being the only language able to say what “is”) and today is German. Sophistical Practice constitutes a major contribution to the debate among philosophical pluralism, unitarism, and pragmatism. It will change how we discuss such words as city, truth, and politics. Philologically and philosophically rethinking the sophistical gesture, relying on performance and translation, it proposes a new paradigm for the human sciences.

Education for Everyday Life

Author : Carl Anders Säfström
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819941091
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Education for Everyday Life written by Carl Anders Säfström and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece

Author : John Poulakos
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611171806
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece written by John Poulakos and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable. In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos argues that a proper understanding of sophistical rhetoric requires a grasp of three cultural dynamics of the fifth century B.C.: the logic of circumstances, the ethic of competition, and the aesthetic of exhibition. Traced to such phenomena as everyday practices, athletic contests, and dramatic performances, these dynamics defined the role of sophistical rhetoric in Hellenic culture and explain why sophistry has traditionally been understood as inconsistent, agonistic, and ostentatious. In his discussion of ancient responses to sophistical rhetoric, Poulakos observes that Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found sophistry morally reprehensible, politically useless, and theoretically incoherent. At the same time, they produced their own version of rhetoric that advocated ethical integrity, political unification, and theoretical coherence. Poulakos explains that these responses and alternative versions were motivated by a search for solutions to such historical problems as moral uncertainty, political instability, and social disorder. Poulakos concludes that sophistical rhetoric was as necessary in its day as its Platonic, Isocratean, and Aristotelian counterparts were in theirs.

A Companion to Ancient Education

Author : W. Martin Bloomer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144433753X
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Education written by W. Martin Bloomer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of education throughout the ancient world Covers both liberal and illiberal (non-elite) education during antiquity Addresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity

Theory, Text, Context

Author : Christopher Lyle Johnstone
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791431085
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Theory, Text, Context written by Christopher Lyle Johnstone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars of classical rhetoric address contemporary topics in Greek rhetoric and oratory.

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Author : Bruce McComiskey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809390132
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric written by Bruce McComiskey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical technê (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century bce Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book. In the first two chapters, McComiskey deals with a misconception based on selective and Platonic readings of the extant fragments: that Gorgias's rhetorical technê involves the deceptive practice of manipulating public opinion. This popular and ultimately misleading interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the basis for many neosophistic appropriations. The final three chapters deal with the nature and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in light of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his opening chapters. He concludes by examining the future of communication studies to discover what roles neosophistic doctrines might play in the twenty-first century. McComiskey also provides a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English since 1900.

Dewey for a New Age of Fascism

Author : Nathan Crick
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085665
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Dewey for a New Age of Fascism written by Nathan Crick and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power but rather a set of dispositions or attitudes. Though not fascist in and of themselves, these habits of thought—rugged individualism and ideological nationalism—lay the foundation for fascism. In this study, Nathan Crick uses Dewey’s social thought and philosophy of education to provide insight into and resources for transforming our present-day politics. Through a close reading of Dewey’s political writings and educational theory, Crick elaborates Dewey’s vision of democratic social life and the education required for its foundation. He shows that for Dewey, communication is essential to cultivating sympathy, intelligence, and creativity—habits of thought that form the core of democratic culture. Crick then lays out a broad curriculum of logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric for inculcating these habits in the classroom, arguing that if we are to meet the challenge of fascism, we must teach these new arts as if our civilization depends on it—because in our new age of politics, it does. Comprehensive and pragmatic, this book presents an experimental model of education that can be applied across the humanities curriculum. It will be of interest to teachers of writing, composition, and rhetoric as well as scholars and students of communication studies, pedagogy, and political theory.

Reason's Dark Champions

Author : Christopher W. Tindale
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172330
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Reason's Dark Champions written by Christopher W. Tindale and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission in Reason's Dark Champions. Viewing the Sophists as a group linked by shared strategies rather than by common epistemological beliefs, Tindale illustrates that the Sophists engaged in a range of argumentative practices in manners wholly different from the principal ways in which Plato and Aristotle employed reason. By examining extant fifth-century texts and the ways in which Sophistic reasoning is mirrored by historians, playwrights, and philosophers of the classical world, Tindale builds a robust understanding of Sophistic argument with relevance to contemporary studies of rhetoric and communication. Beginning with the reception of the Sophists in their own culture, Tindale explores depictions of the Sophists in Plato's dialogues and the argumentative strategies attributed to them as a means of understanding the threat Sophism posed to Platonic philosophical ambitions of truth seeking. He also considers the nature of the "sophistical refutation" and its place in the tradition of fallacy. Tindale then turns to textual examples of specific argumentative practices, mapping how Sophists employed the argument from likelihood, reversal arguments, arguments on each side of a position, and commonplace reasoning. What emerges is a complex reappraisal of Sophism that reorients criticism of this mode of argumentation, expands understanding of Sophistic contributions to classical rhetoric, and opens avenues for further scholarship.

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

Author : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108053513
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three issues of a short-lived academic journal, published in 1854, illuminate classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.

Philosophy and Vulnerability

Author : Matthew R. McLennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135000409X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Vulnerability written by Matthew R. McLennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary “nonphilosophers” to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future.

The Rhetoric of Aristotle

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Greek Ethics

Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758677
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564640
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us written by Simon Critchley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

A History of Greece

Author : George Grote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Greece written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato’s Protagoras

Author : Olof Pettersson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319455850
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Protagoras written by Olof Pettersson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the strategies that this involved. They explore Plato’s dialogue, looking at questions of how philosophy and sophistry relate, both on a methodological and on a thematic level. While many of the contributing authors argue for a sharp distinction between sophistry and philosophy, this is contested by others. Readers may consider the distinctions between philosophy and traditional forms of poetry and sophistry through these papers. Questions for readers' attention include: To what extent is Socrates’ preferred mode of discourse, and his short questions and answers, superior to Protagoras’ method of sophistic teaching? And why does Plato make Socrates and Protagoras reverse positions as it comes to virtue and its teachability? This book will appeal to graduates and researchers with an interest in the origins of philosophy, classical philosophy and historical philosophy.

Renaissance Truths

Author : Alan R. Perreiah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066375
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Truths written by Alan R. Perreiah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted to the needs of education. Succeeding chapters examine the concepts of linguistic meaning and truth in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations and Juan Luis Vives’ De disciplinis. The third chapter offers a new interpretation of Vives’ Adversus pseudodialecticos as itself an exercise in scholastic sophistry. Against this humanistic background, the study takes up the concepts of meaning and truth in Paul of Venice’s Logica parva, a popular scholastic textbook in the Quattrocento. To advance recent research on language pedagogy in the Renaissance, it clarifies the connections between truth and translation and shows how scholastic logic performed an essential task in the early modern university: it was a translational language that enabled students who spoke mainly their regional vernaculars to learn the language of university discourse. A conclusion reviews some major themes of the study-e.g., linguistic determinism and relativity, vernacularity and translation, semantical vs. epistemic truth-and evaluates the achievements of humanism and scholasticism according to appropriate criteria for a perfect language.

Neutrality in Contemporary International Law

Author : James Upcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191060283
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Neutrality in Contemporary International Law written by James Upcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law of neutrality - the corpus of legal rules regulating the relationship between belligerents and States taking no part in hostilities - assumed its modern form in a world in which the waging of war was unconstrained. The neutral State enjoyed territorial inviolability to the extent that it adhered to the obligations attaching to its neutral status and thus the law of neutrality provided spatial parameters for the conduct of hostilities. Yet the basis on which the law of neutrality developed - the extra-legal character of war - no longer exists. Does the law of neutrality continue to survive in the modern era? If so, how has it been modified by the profound changes in the law on the use of force and the law of armed conflict? This book argues that neutrality endures as a key concept of the law of armed conflict. The interaction between belligerent and nonbelligerent States continues to require legal regulation, as demonstrated by a number of recent conflicts, including the Iraq War of 2003 and the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010. By detailing the rights and duties of neutral states and demonstrating how the rules of neutrality continue to apply in modern day conflicts, this restatement of law of neutrality will be a useful guide to legal academics working on the law of armed conflict, the law on the use of force, and the history of international law, as well as for government and military lawyers seeking comprehensive guidance in this difficult area of the law.