Plato's Reasons

Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Christopher W. Tindale

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Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Antal sidor330
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438495538

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and TranslationsGeneral Introduction: Inside the City of Reason Part I: The Logician Introduction to Part I: Plato and the Intricacies of Logic 1. Socratic Arguments 2. Refutation: The Logic of the Early Dialogues 3. Contentious Arguments: Preconditions for Aristotle's Theory of "Fallacy" in the Dialogues of Plato 4. Strong Arguments Part II: The Rhetorician Introduction to Part II: Plato's Style 5. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric: Fractures in the Standard Narrative 6. The Atopic Philosopher 7. Platonic Devices 8. Back in Plato's Labyrinth: The Rhetorical Challenges of the Republic9. Rhetoric in the Middle Plato and Beyond Part III: The Dialectician Introduction to Part III: A New Dialectic 10. Tracing Dialectic 11. The Song that Dialectic Sings: Methods in the Middle Dialogues 12. The Dialectician References Index

"Tindale has done an admirable job of showing that Plato's ambivalent relationship with rhetoric doesn't end with middle dialogues such as the Gorgias and Phaedrus. He convincingly demonstrates that Plato not only continues to keep rhetoric in the forefront of his later dialogues, but also rehabilitates it and grants it a significant, albeit subordinate role to play." — John Harris, University of Alberta"This is a groundbreaking work that contributes in a masterful way not to just one field but several, such as Platonic philosophy, rhetoric, and theory of argumentation. Tindale also provides a link between classical philosophy and modern issues of informal logic. For the first time, the classical triad of logic, rhetoric, and dialectic central to informal logic and argumentation theory are applied to the complete oeuvre of Plato." — Manfred Kraus, University of Tübingen, Germany