Meeting in the House of Callias: Rhetoric and Dialectic [Book Review]

Argumentation 14 (3):205-217 (2000)
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The purpose of this paper is to briefly describe and compare the original goals and perspectives of both rhetoric and dialectic in theory and in practice. Dialectic is the practice and theory of conversations; rhetoric that of speeches. For theory of dialectic, this paper will turn to Aristotle's Topics and Sophistical Refutations; for theory of rhetoric, to his Rhetoric. Thus it will appear that rhetoric and dialectic are pretty close. Yet, on the other hand, there is a long tradition of mutual antagonism. The paper tries to summarize the common features of, as well as the differences between, the two. To get a taste of both dialectic and rhetoric in practice the reader is invited to enter the House of Callias, as we know it from Plato's Protagoras. After this visit there remains no doubt that rhetoric and dialectic are intertwined on the level of practice. Moreover, we may look forward to their integration on the level of theory

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Aristotle's first principles.Terence Irwin - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Protagoras.James Plato & Adela Marion Adam - 1999 - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Edited by Bernd Manuwald.
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