Argumentation 5 (2):141-157 (1991)
Abstract |
This essay argues that Aristotle's categories of oratory are not as useful in judging the methods of Sophistical rhetoric as his presentation of time. The Sophistical argumentative method of “making the weaker the stronger case” is re-evaluated as a political practice. After showing this argument's relation to power and ideology, Aristotle's philosophy, which privileges a procedure of argument consistent with the politics of a polis-ideal rhetoric, is offered as reason for objecting to Sophistical rhetoric. The essay concludes that Sophistical rhetoric prefers the concept of possibility over Aristotelian actuality, and offers a need for an ideological space of radical, generative possibility in rhetorical theory
|
Keywords | Aristotle judicial oratory method of argument philosophy politics possibility rationality rhetoric Sophists time “to make the weaker case the stronger” |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Reprint years | 1995 |
DOI | 10.1007/BF00054002 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
View all 36 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Quentin Skinner's Rhetoric of Conceptual Change.Kari Palonen - 1997 - History of the Human Sciences 10 (2):61-80.
Similar books and articles
Commonsense Morality and the Consequentialist Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention.Eric A. Heinze - 2005 - Journal of Military Ethics 4 (3):168-182.
Protecting the World: Military Humanitarian Intervention and the Ethics of Care.Jess Kyle - 2013 - Hypatia 28 (2):257-273.
Are Human Rights Essentially Triggers for Intervention?John Tasioulas - 2009 - Philosophy Compass 4 (6):938-950.
Political Arguments Against Utopianism.Roger Paden - 1999 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 6 (1):7-17.
Futile and False Rejoinders, Sophistical Arguments and Early Indian Logic.Ernst Prets - 2001 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 (5/6):545-558.
Aristotle on False Reasoning: Language and the World in the Sophistical Refutations.Scott G. Schreiber - 2003 - State University of New York Press.
Justifying Coercive and Non-Coercive Intervention: Strategic and Humanitarian Arguments.Rory J. Conces - 2001 - Acta Analytica 16 (27):133-52.
Context-Sensitive Argumentation: Dirty Tricks in the Sophistical Refutations and a Perceptive Medieval Interpretation of the Text.Sten Ebbesen - 2011 - Vivarium 49 (1-3):75-94.
Review: Rereading Kant: Three New Approaches. [REVIEW]Susan Shell - 2005 - Political Theory 33 (4):577 - 581.
Understanding Political Modernity : Rereading Arendt and Adorno in Comparative Perspective.Samir Gandesha & Lars Rensmann - 2012 - In Lars Rensmann & Samir Gandesha (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations. Stanford University Press.
God as the Equilibrium of the Hobbesian Political Philosophical System.Andrés Di Leo Razuk - 2011 - Hobbes Studies 24 (1):24-43.
The New Politics of Property Rights.Aviezer Tucker, Alba Maria Ruibal, Jack Cahill & Farrah Brown - 2004 - Critical Review 16 (4):377-403.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2013-01-04
Total views
27 ( #381,618 of 2,401,683 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
5 ( #156,727 of 2,401,683 )
2013-01-04
Total views
27 ( #381,618 of 2,401,683 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
5 ( #156,727 of 2,401,683 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads