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The theory and practice of life : Isocrates and the philosophers

by: Wareh, T.

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Category: Hellenic Studies / Center for Hellenic Studies / Trustees for Harvard University. Washington, DC
Code: 18134
ISBN-13: 9780674067134 / 978-0-674-06713-4
ISBN-10: 0674067134 / 0-674-06713-4
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Binding: Paper
Pages: 236
Book Condition: New
Comments: Hellenic studies, 54 / viii, 236 p. ; 23 cm.

The theory and practice of life : Isocrates and the philosophers

Author:Tarik Wareh

Summary:The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. Tarik Wareh shows that when Aristotle illustrates his ethical theory by reference to the practical arts, this is no simple appeal to a homespun commonsense analogy, but a sign of dependence on the traditions and concepts of rhetorical and empirical methodology. Likewise, when Plato in the Phaedrus constructs the possibility of a truly philosophical rhetoric on the model of "Hippocratic" medicine, his uncomfortable consciousness of rhetorical theory's relevance, prestige, and power is revealed. The second half of the book brings together the fragmentary evidence for the participation of "Isocrateans" in the philosophical polemics, princely didactics, and literary competition of the fourth century, shedding new light on the "lost years" of intellectual and literary history that lie before the dawn of the Hellenistic period

Contents:
The influence of rhetorical education on Aristotelian ethics : knowledge, training, and performance
Plato's concession to the practical arts in the Phaedrus
Aristotle in the afternoon : rhetoric, exoterica, and the compromised philosopher
Philosophical politics, tooth and nail
Speusippus' Letter to Philip
Preaching and patronage : the intellectual and the king
Conclusion : Isocrateanism in the Renaissance

Series:
Hellenic studies, 54

viii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

 
 
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The theory and practice of life : Isocrates and the philosophers

by: Wareh, T.

  • ISBN-13: 9780674067134 / 978-0-674-06713-4
  • ISBN-03: 0674067134 / 0-674-06713-4
  • Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 2012

Price: 25,00 EURO

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