The rhetoric of philosophy / / Shai Frogel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811509703321
• Autore: Frogel Shai
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005
• ISBN: 1-282-15652-7; 9786612156526; 90-272-9423-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Collana: Controversies, , 1574-1583 ; ; v. 3
• Disciplina: 101
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Rhetoric
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.