Ars Topica [electronic resource] : The Classical Technique of Constructing Arguments from Aristotle to Cicero / by Sara Rubinelli.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781402095498
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/7741
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2009.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXII, 160 p. online resource.
Dizi
Argumentation Library, 2215-1907 ; 15
İçindekiler Notu
The Creation of the Method of Topoi and Its Characteristics -- Aristotle’s Topics -- Dialectical and Rhetorical Uses of Topoi -- Topoi and Loci -- Cicero’s Use of Locus in De Inventione -- Cicero’s List of Aristotelian Loci.
Özet, vb.
Ars Topica is the first full-length study of the nature and development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes, between Aristotle and Cicero. Aristotle and Cicero configured topoi in a way that influenced the subsequent tradition. Their work on the topos-system grew out of an interest in creating a theory of argumentation which could stand between the rigour of formal logic and the emotive potential of rhetoric. This system went through a series of developments and transformations resulting from the interplay between the separate aims of gaining rhetorical effectiveness and of maintaining dialectical standards. Ars Topica presents a comprehensive treatment of Aristotle’s and Cicero’s methods of topoi and, by exploring their relationship, it illuminates an area of ancient rhetoric and logic which has been obscured for more than two thousand years. Through an interpretation which is philologically rooted in the historical context of topoi, the book lays the ground for evaluating the relevance of the classical approaches to modern research on arguments, and at the same time provides an introduction to Greek and Roman theory of argumentation focussed on its most important theoretical achievements.
Konu
Logic.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philology.
History, Ancient.
Language and languages __ Philosophy.
Logic.
Ancient Philosophy / Classical Philosophy.
Philology.
Classical Studies.
Philosophy of Language.