Elizabeth Bissell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4883953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Bissell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Bissell |
| SIGNATURE | BISSELL E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Dogmatism
Long: I do have a quarrel with what McCloskey's chapter says about Plato's Gorgias, one of my favorite Platonic dialogues.One of the aims of that dialogue is to distinguish between two modes of speech -one that aims at truth and one that aims at power.Plato identifies the former with philosophy and the latter with rhetoric, thus drawing McCloskey's ire because she is a longtime defender of the importance of rhetoric.McCloskey: Yes, Plato is charm…
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Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Dogmatism
Long: I do have a quarrel with what McCloskey's chapter says about Plato's Gorgias, one of my favorite Platonic dialogues.One of the aims of that dialogue is to distinguish between two modes of speech -one that aims at truth and one that aims at power.Plato identifies the former with philosophy and the latter with rhetoric, thus drawing McCloskey's ire because she is a longtime defender of the importance of rhetoric.McCloskey: Yes, Plato is charm…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Dialectic (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Free speech (1 work) · Irish and British Studies (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Modernist Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Political science (1 work)