Moisés do Vale dos Santos

The rhetorical art of Aristotle

A reconciliation between Plato and the sophists

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Produktbeschreibung

This work seeks to demonstrate that in Aristotle's rhetorical thought there is a reconciliation between two antagonistic conceptions about the rhetorical art: Plato's and the Sophists'. Under Plato's influence, Aristotle seeks to preserve the rhetorical practice of moral relativism, attributing to the art of persuasive speech an ethical-political function, which consists both in the defense of truth and justice in the city and in the strengthening of the ethical virtues of citizens, whose purpose is the good life in general . However, in relation to the approach to the sophists, Aristotle maintains that the ethical-political function of the rhetorical art would justify the employment of all available rhetorical stratagems to obtain the persuasion of the listeners, such as emotional appeal and emphasis on enunciative expression, because it is objectionable that truth and justice are overcome by their opposites. However, such expedients cannot be more relevant to argumentation thanthe use of the entimemma - a kind of syllogism that is based on probabilities and signs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9786203699159
• ISBN-10: 6203699152
• Artikelnr.: 62313419

Autorenporträt

Moisés do Vale dos Santos é Doutor e Mestre em História da Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea pela Universidade Federal do Paraná ¿ UFPR. Especialista em Teoria Psicanalítica pela Faculdade de Administração, Ciências contábeis, Educação e Letras ¿ FACEL. Bacharel e Licenciado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná ¿ UFPR.