The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy. Plato's 'Gorgias' and 'Phaedrus'. - BENARDETE, S.,

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

KORTE INHOUD

'For Benardete, the 'Gorgias' is a work concerned with the rhetoric of morality, and one intended to test the efficacy of Gorgianic rhetoric. The 'Phaedrus' represents an inquiry into the possibility of an effective philosophically-grounded rhetoric, which can also properly be called the science of eros. This interpretation, to an extent novel in 1991 though now widely accepted (...), addresses numerous issues central to Platonic studies, including the relationship between the structure of the Gorgias and the image of soul and city in the Republic, and that between the structure of 'Phaedrus' and the concept of eros. (...) Benardete leads the reader step by step through his argument, taking care to ground each point in the text while still assuming familiarity with these texts and others (the index of Platonic passages discussed is 2.5 pages long, and includes 22 works). In what almost seems like a tic, however, Benardete often ends his illuminating paragraphs with an enigmatic statement that often turns on a...
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1991Uitgever: University of Chicago Press205 paginasISBN-10: 0226042405ISBN-13: 9780226042404

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