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Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus (Paperback)
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Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus (Paperback)
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Plato is a well-known critic of rhetoric, but in the Phaedrus, he
defends the art of rhetoric, arguing that it can be perfected with
the aid of philosophy. In Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical
Life in Plato's Phaedrus, Tiago Lier provides a new and
comprehensive interpretation of this important dialogue. He argues
that Plato's defense of rhetoric is based on philosophy's ethical
nature, and that philosophy is a way of life rather than a body of
knowledge. For Plato, an essential element of both rhetoric and the
philosophical life is that every use of speech, whether to persuade
or to learn, depends upon the psychology of the speaker and the
audience. Lier shows how Socrates develops a dynamic account of
this psychology over the course of the dialogue in order to help
Phaedrus understand how he is personally engaged in, and shaped by,
every act of communication. Only when we grasp the tension between
eros and logos will we discover the limitations of the art of
rhetoric and that rhetoric alone cannot show us what we truly
desire. Instead, Lier concludes, the greatest power of speech is to
reveal to ourselves our own desires and understanding of our place
in the world. This continual self-reflection is the philosophical
life around which Socrates and Plato fashion their distinctive
forms of rhetoric. The insights developed in this book will be of
particular relevance to students and scholars of ancient
philosophy, classics, and rhetorical theory, but it will also be of
interest to those working in political science, literary studies,
and communication studies.
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