The aesthetics of argument / Martin Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Reasoning.

Logic.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Argument and imagination are often interdependent. Martin Warner explores how this relationship bears on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion. He argues that the rationality of argument is not only a matter of deductive validity, but can be assessed in terms of criteria drawn from the study of imaginative literature.

Contents:

From analogy to narrative

From self-involvement to judgement: the potentialities of Plato's Phaedrus

Dialectial drama: the dynamics of Plato's Symposium

Philiosophical autobiography: St. Augustine and John Stuart Mill

The fourth gospel's art of rational persuasion

Philosophical poetry: the case of Four Quartets

The "logic" of imagery 1: the poetic image

The "logic" of imagery 2: logic, argument, and imagery.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 27, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-180065-1