LEADER 04455nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910813216403321 005 20240410024133.0 010 $a1-283-61127-9 010 $a9786613923721 010 $a1-61117-233-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000246830 035 $a(OCoLC)812915065 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10605347 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000753647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12340875 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000753647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10709756 035 $a(PQKB)10625636 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29350 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054786 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10605347 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL392372 035 $a(OCoLC)910069571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054786 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000246830 100 $a20090824d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReason's dark champions $econstructive strategies of Sophistic argument /$fChristopher W. Tindale 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia, S.C. $cUniversity of South Carolina Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in rhetoric/communication 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-57003-878-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index. 327 $aSophistic 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. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aSophists (Greek philosophy) 606 $aReasoning 615 0$aSophists (Greek philosophy) 615 0$aReasoning. 676 $a183/.1 700 $aTindale$b Christopher W$g(Christopher William)$0475025 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813216403321 996 $aReason's dark champions$9246416 997 $aUNINA