In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an
unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between
speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient
Greek thought and teachingsafrom the mythopoetic tradition of Homer
and Hesiod to Aristotleas treatises.
Johnstone grounds his study in the cultural, conceptual, and
linguistic milieu of archaic and classical Greece, which nurtured
new ways of thinking about and investigating the world. He focuses
on accounts of logos and wisdom in the surviving writings and
teachings of Homer and Hesiod, the Presocratics, the Sophists and
Socrates, Isocrates and Plato, and Aristotle. Specifically
Johnstone highlights the importance of language arts in both
speculative inquiry and practical judgment, a nexus that presages
connections between philosophy and rhetoric that persist still. His
study investigates concepts and concerns key to the speakeras art
from the outset: wisdom, truth, knowledge, belief, prudence,
justice, and reason. From these investigations certain points of
coherence emerge about the nature of wisdomathat wisdom includes
knowledge of eternal principles, both divine and natural; that it
embraces practical, moral knowledge; that it centers on
apprehending and applying a cosmic principle of proportion and
balance; that it allows its possessor to forecast the future; and
that the oral use of language figures centrally in obtaining and
practicing it.
Johnstoneas interdisciplinary account ably demonstrates that in
the ancient world it was both the content and form of speech that
most directly inspired, awakened, and deepened the insights
comprehended under the notion of wisdom.
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