What is it about?
Rhetoric considered being the enemy of philosophy. The book shows that there is no instrinic conflict between them but philosophy has special kind of rhetoric. It is rhetoric that it’s aim is the truth and not a persuasion of a praticular audience. Therefore it depends on the philosopher’s capability to distinguish between subjective persuasion and universal conviction.
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Why is it important?
It goes against the common view that philosophy should give up its aim of universal truth. Yet, it emphasizes that philosophy could not be but a project of self-thinking and cannot be based on method.
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The motivation behind the book is the question how the philosopher who should see his/her self-thinking as the touch stone of truth can avoid self-deception.
Professor shaif Frogel
Kibbutzim College of Education
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This page is a summary of: The Rhetoric of Philosophy, September 2005, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cvs.3.
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