Plato's Reasons : Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician (Suny series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Tindale, Christopher W.

State University of New York Press（2023/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438495538
• DDC分類 128

Full Description

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Translations
General Introduction: Inside the City of Reason

Part I: The Logician

Introduction to Part I: Plato and the Intricacies of Logic

1. Socratic Arguments

2. Refutation: The Logic of the Early Dialogues

3. Contentious Arguments: Preconditions for Aristotle's Theory of "Fallacy" in the Dialogues of Plato

4. Strong Arguments

Part II: The Rhetorician

Introduction to Part II: Plato's Style

5. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric: Fractures in the Standard Narrative

6. The Atopic Philosopher

7. Platonic Devices

8. Back in Plato's Labyrinth: The Rhetorical Challenges of the Republic

9. Rhetoric in the Middle Plato and Beyond

Part III: The Dialectician

Introduction to Part III: A New Dialectic

10. Tracing Dialectic

11. The Song that Dialectic Sings: Methods in the Middle Dialogues

12. The Dialectician

References
Index