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From Metaphysics to Rhetoric (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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From Metaphysics to Rhetoric (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 202
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by the question in its being an answer, if only in a circumstantial
(i. e. inessential) manner. One indeed must question oneself in
order to remember, says Plato, but the dialectic, which would be
scientific, must be something else even if it remains a play of
question and answer. This contradiction did not escape Aristotle:
he split the scientific from the dialectic and logic from
argumentation whose respective theories he was led to conceive in
order to clearly define their boundaries and specificities. As for
Plato, he found in the famous theory of Ideas what he sought in
order to justify knowledge as that which is supposed to hold its
truth only from itself. What do Ideas mean within the framework of
our approach? In what consists the passage from rhetoric to
ontology which leads to the denaturation of argumentation? When
Socrates asked, for example, "What is virtue?," he thought one
could not answer such a question because the answer refers to a
single proposition, a single truth, whereas the formulation of the
question itself does not indicate this unicity. For any answer,
another can be given and thus continuously, if necessary, until
eventually one will come across an incompatibility. Now, to a
question as to what X, Y, or Z is, one can answer in many ways and
nothing in the question itself prohibits multiplicity. Virtue is
courage, is justice, and so on.
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