The dispute concerning rhetoric in Hellenistic thought / Yosef Z. Liebersohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liebersohn, Yosef Z.

Series:

Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur antike und zu ihrem nachleben ; Heft 185.

Hypomnemata, 0085-1671 ; Bd. 185

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung Diese Studie rekonstruiert die hellenistische philosophische Debatte über die Rhetorik. In der heterogenen Quellenlage gelingt es Liebersohn, zwei Phasen in den Debatten um den Wert der Rhetorik und zwei Typen von Debatten zu unterscheiden: eine innerphilosophische und eine zwischen Philosophen und Rhetoren.Zunächst wird das genaue Umfeld dieses Disputs untersucht, also die Orte, Daten und Personen. Im Anschluss werden fünf Hauptargumente gegen Rhetorik rekonstruiert, die alle vom Anspruch der Rhetorik, zu den Künsten zu gehören, ausgehen.Diese fünf Geg

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Table of Contents; Body; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Foreword; 1.2. Methodology; 1.3. A Survey of the Sources; 1.3.1. Cicero; 1.3.2. Philodemus; 1.3.3. Quintilian; 1.3.4. Sextus Empiricus; 1.3.5. The Prolegomena Literature; 2. The Background to the Debate; 2.1. Preliminary Considerations; 2.2. The Philosophical Schools and Rhetoric; 2.2.1. The Epicureans; 2.2.2. The Peripatetics; 2.2.3. The Stoics; 2.2.4. The Academics; 2.3. The Historical Background; 2.4. Common Assumptions in the Secondary Literature; 2.4.1. Ludwig Radermacher; 2.4.2. Harry Hubbell

2.4.3. Leeman and Pinkster2.4.4. Jonathan Barnes; 2.4.5. Reinhardt and Winterbottom; 2.5. The Present Study; 3. The Exclusivity of Teaching Argument; 3.1. General Points; 3.2. The Sources; 3.3. The Testimony of Cicero; 3.3.1. The Arguments; 3.3.2. The Target of the Arguments; 3.4. The Testimony of Sextus Empiricus; 3.4.1. The Arguments; 3.4.2. The Target of the Arguments; 3.5. The Testimony of Quintilian; 3.5.1. The Arguments; 3.5.2. The Target of the Arguments; 3.6. The Testimony of Philodemus; 3.6.1. The Arguments; 3.6.2. The Target of the Arguments; 3.7. Conclusion; 4. The Falsa Argument

4.1. General Points4.2. The Sources; 4.2.1. The Testimony of Quintilian; 4.2.2. The Testimony of Sextus Empiricus; 4.3. The Falsa Argument; 4.3.1. The (Self)Deceiving Orator Argument; 4.3.2. The Rhetoric as Fraud Argument; 4.4. The Target of the Arguments; 4.5. Conclusion; 5. The Benefit Argument; 5.1. General Points; 5.2. Quintilian and the Benefit Argument; 5.2.1. Quintilian, II. ch.16 (Description); 5.2.2. Quintilian, II. ch.16 (Analysis); 5.3. Sextus Empiricus and the Benefit Argument; 5.3.1. Sextus Empiricus, II. 20-47; 5.3.2. The Expulsion Argument; 5.3.3. The General Harm Argument

5.4. Kakotechnia5.4.1. Sextus Empiricus, II. 12; 5.4.2. Kakotechnia - sources; 5.5. Two Problems; 5.5.1. pro falsis contra veritatem valere; 5.5.2. The Expulsion Argument in Critolaus' Version; 5.6. Conclusion; 6. The End Argument; 6.1. The Sources; 6.2. Introduction to the End Argument; 6.3. The Exclusivity of Attaining the End Argument; 6.4. The Exclusivity of the End Argument; 6.4.1. Analysis of the Exclusivity of the End Argument; 6.4.2. Analysis of the Exclusivity of the End Criticism; 6.4.3. The Surveys and their Sources; 6.5. Lucian; 6.6. Conclusion; 7. The Materia Argument

7.1. The Sources7.2. Quintilian, II. ch.15-21; 7.3. Quintilian, II. ch.21; 7.4. Sextus Empiricus, II. 48-59; 7.5. The Sources for the Arguments; 7.6. Conclusion; 8. Summary; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index Nominum (Antiquorum et Recentiorum); Index Rerum Notabiliorum; Back Cover

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9786613756619

9783666252945

366625294X

9781280985003

1280985003

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3647252948

OCLC:

775302354

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