The rhetoric of philosophy / Shai Frogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frogel, Shai.

Series:

Controversies ; v. 3.

Controversies, 1574-1583 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book claims that philosophy can be defined by its distinct rhetoric. This rhetoric is shaped by two values: humanism and critique. Humanism is defined as preferring the individual human deliberation to any external authority or method. Self-conviction is the touchstone of truth in philosophy. Critique is defined as suspecting your beliefs and convictions. This is the reason why the book uses Nietzsche's definition of "the will to truth" - "the will not to deceive, not even myself" - for explaining the nature of philosophical thinking and argumentation. This rhetorical analysis reveals that the danger of self-deception is a constitutive yet irresolvable problem of philosophy.The subjects of the book are: the relations between philosophy and rhetoric, the speaker and the addressee of philosophical arguments, the subordination of logic to rhetoric in philosophy and the philosophical problem of self-deception. This work, unburdened with philosophers' jargon, fits well in the current critical debate about the relevance of pragmatic features of the concepts of subjectivity and truth.

Contents:

The Rhetoric of Philosophy

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Epigraph

Table of contents

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Justification without criteria

The search for ``The Truth'' (``the will to truth'')

Rhetoric and philosophy

Plato: The ``Gorgias'' and the ``Phaedrus''

The ``Gorgias''

The ``Phaedrus''

Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric I

Perelman: The new rhetoric

Rhetoric and philosophy: The rhetoric of ``The Truth''

Speaker and addressee in philosophy

The philosophical speaker

The philosophical addressee

Self-agreement and self-deception

Philosophical argumentation: Logic and rhetoric109

Locke and Berkeley: An example

Locke and Berkeley: The lesson

Logical proof and logical criticism

Psychological criticism

Humanism, critique and the rhetoric of philosophy

Humanism and critique

The rhetoric of philosophy

Notes

-24pt

References

Index

the series Controversies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156526

9781282156524

1282156527

9789027294234

9027294232

OCLC:

79470836