04455nam 2200613Ia 450 991081321640332120240410024133.01-283-61127-997866139237211-61117-233-0(CKB)2670000000246830(OCoLC)812915065(CaPaEBR)ebrary10605347(SSID)ssj0000753647(PQKBManifestationID)12340875(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000753647(PQKBWorkID)10709756(PQKB)10625636(MdBmJHUP)muse29350(Au-PeEL)EBL2054786(CaPaEBR)ebr10605347(CaONFJC)MIL392372(OCoLC)910069571(MiAaPQ)EBC2054786(EXLCZ)99267000000024683020090824d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReason's dark champions constructive strategies of Sophistic argument /Christopher W. Tindale1st ed.Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (193 p.) Studies in rhetoric/communicationBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-57003-878-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.Sophistic argument and the early tradition -- Introduction -- The category 'Sophist': who counts? -- The figure of socrates -- Sophistic argument: contrasting views -- Against the Sophists -- Figures of influence -- Positive views of Sophistic argument -- Resistance to revision -- Making the weak argument the stronger -- A problem of translation -- Eristics and the Euthydemus -- Antiphon the Sophist -- Protagorean rhetoric -- Plato's Sophists -- Platonic and Sophistic argument and the 'Sophist dialogues' -- Public and private argument -- Plato's view of argument -- A question of method -- Imitation and method: eristic and the Peritrope -- The veracity of Plato's testimony -- The Sophists and fallacious argument: aristotle's legacy -- The sophists and fallacy -- The sophistical refutations -- Fallacy in the Euthydemus -- Lessons from the Euthydemus -- Contrasting refutations -- Sophistic strategies of argumentation -- Rhetoric and argumentation -- Rhetoric and sophistry -- Extending Sophistic argument: Alcidamas and Isocrates -- What is Eikos?: the argument from likelihood -- The meaning of likelihood -- Examples from Antiphon -- The range of Eikos arguments -- Evaluating Eikos arguments -- Contemporary appearances: Walton and the plausibility argument -- Turning tables: roots and varieties of the Peritrope -- What trope is the Peritrope? -- Defining the Peritrope -- Reversal arguments in Gorgias and Antiphon -- Socratic and Sophistic refutations again -- Contemporary reversals -- Evaluation -- Contrasting arguments: Antilogoi or Antithesis -- The concepts of Antilogoi and Antithesis -- History of the Antilogoi -- The dissoi logoi -- Antithesis and the counterfactual -- Examples of Antilogoi: Gorgias, Antiphon, Prodicus, Thucydides, Antisthenes -- Purpose and evaluation -- Contemporary echoes -- Signs, commonplaces, and allusions -- Modes of proof -- Arguing from signs -- Commonplaces -- Allusions -- More recent echoes -- Ethotic argument: witness testimony and the appeal to character -- Ethos -- The appeal to one's own character -- Witnesses -- Funeral speeches -- Promotion of character -- Attacking character -- The use of ethotic argument and the modern ad hominem -- Justice and the value of Sophistic argument -- Truth and morality: reasoning in the dark -- A human justice -- Sophistic argument and justice -- Kinds of Sophist -- Sophistic argument in the present.What emerges is a complex reappraisal of Sophism that reorients criticism of this mode of argumentation, expands understanding of Sophistic contributions to classical rhetoric, and opens avenues for further scholarship.Sophists (Greek philosophy)ReasoningSophists (Greek philosophy)Reasoning.183/.1Tindale Christopher W(Christopher William)475025MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813216403321Reason's dark champions246416UNINA