Marina McCoy

Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780521175371
• ISBN-10: 0521175372
• Artikelnr.: 32465176

Autorenporträt

Marina McCoy is assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College. A former National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow she has published articles in several journals, including Ancient Philosophy and Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Elements of Gorgianic rhetoric and the forensic genre in Plato's Apology
3. The rhetoric of socratic questioning in the Protagoras
4. The competition between philosophy and rhetoric in the Gorgias
5. The dialectical development of the philosopher and sophist in the Republic
6. Philosophers, sophists, and strangers in the Sophist
7. Love and rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus.