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From Metaphysics to Rhetoric

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Editors:
  1. Michel Meyer

    1. University of Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 202)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Foreword — The Modernity of Rhetoric

    • Michel Meyer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Formal Logic and Informal Logic

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 9-14

  4. Logic and Argumentation

    • Jean Ladrière
    Pages 15-35

  5. To Reason While Speaking

    • Jean-Blaise Grize
    Pages 37-48

  6. Organization and Articulation of Verbal Exchanges: Question-Response Exchanges in Polemical Contexts

    • Pierre Oléron
    Pages 49-69

  7. Argumentativity and Informativity

    • Jean-Claude Anscombre, Oswald Ducrot
    Pages 71-87

  8. Saying and Knowing

    • Judith Schlanger
    Pages 89-94

  9. Dialectic, Rhetoric and Critique in Aristotle

    • Lambros Couloubaritsis
    Pages 95-110

  10. Toward an Anthropology of Rhetoric

    • Michel Meyer
    Pages 111-136

  11. Rhetoric — Poetics — Hermeneutics

    • Paul Ricoeur
    Pages 137-149

  12. Rhetoric and Literature

    • Michel Beaujour
    Pages 151-168

  13. The Figure and the Argument

    • Olivier Reboul
    Pages 169-181

  14. Rhetoric and Politics

    • Romain Laufer
    Pages 183-197
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by the question in its being an answer, if only in a circumstantial (i. e. inessential) manner. One indeed must question oneself in order to remember, says Plato, but the dialectic, which would be scientific, must be something else even if it remains a play of question and answer. This contradiction did not escape Aristotle: he split the scientific from the dialectic and logic from argumentation whose respective theories he was led to conceive in order to clearly define their boundaries and specificities. As for Plato, he found in the famous theory of Ideas what he sought in order to justify knowledge as that which is supposed to hold its truth only from itself. What do Ideas mean within the framework of our approach? In what consists the passage from rhetoric to ontology which leads to the denaturation of argumentation? When Socrates asked, for example, "What is virtue?", he thought one could not answer such a question because the answer refers to a single proposition, a single truth, whereas the formulation of the question itself does not indicate this unicity. For any answer, another can be given and thus continuously, if necessary, until eventually one will come across an incompatibility. Now, to a question as to what X, Y, or Z is, one can answer in many ways and nothing in the question itself prohibits multiplicity. Virtue is courage, is justice, and so on.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Brussels, Belgium

    Michel Meyer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Metaphysics to Rhetoric

  • Editors: Michel Meyer

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2593-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2814-2Published: 31 July 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7672-2Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2593-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 198

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, History, general, Logic, Modern Philosophy

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