Brad McAdon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5651202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brad McAdon |
| NOMBRES | Brad |
| APELLIDO | McAdon |
| FIRMA | MCADON B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Memphis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Strabo, Plutarch, Porphyry and the Transmission and Composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric—a Hunch
Scholars who have been writing recently about the unity and composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric make either brief or no mention of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's texts. This essay addresses this void by first presenting and discussing Strabo's, Plutarch's, and Porphyry's accounts of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's and Theophrastus' texts in conjunction with discussing the list of works that Diogenes La…
Reconsidering the Intention or Purpose of Aristotle's Rhetoric
This essay engages two contemporary views as to the authorial purposes of the Rhetoric. Advocates of one view maintain that Aristotle valued democracy and understood rhetoric to be a form of positive civic or democratic discourse and that the Rhetoric was written to express this view, while others suggest that Aristotle's purpose in writing the Rhetoric was to instruct members of the Academy and Lyceum in the "necessary evil" of using rhetoric to…
Plato's Denunciation of Rhetoric in the Phaedrus
Contrary to a prevailing view within rhetoric and composition circles that finds a positive view of rhetoric in the Phaedrus, I contend that Plato mockingly denounces rhetoric in the Phaedrus. To support this claim, I argue that the Phaedrus is an unmistakable response to Isocrates' Against the Sophists and needs to be understood as part of this dynamic dialogue and that in the Phaedrus Plato is distinguishing his philosophical method, as he conc…
Rhetoric Is a Counterpart of Dialectic (E retorike estin antistrophos te "dialektike"
Rhetoric is a Counterpart of Dialectic ([inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i" /]) Brad McAdon Greek philosophers who preceded Aristotle, especially Gorgias, Plato, and Isocrates, developed their respective views on persuasive discourse (or rhetoric) based upon their larger philosophical projects. Similarly, I will argue in this essay, Aristotle developed his understanding of rhetoric as a part of his larger p…
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Rhetoric Is a Counterpart of Dialectic (E retorike estin antistrophos te "dialektike"
Rhetoric is a Counterpart of Dialectic ([inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i" /]) Brad McAdon Greek philosophers who preceded Aristotle, especially Gorgias, Plato, and Isocrates, developed their respective views on persuasive discourse (or rhetoric) based upon their larger philosophical projects. Similarly, I will argue in this essay, Aristotle developed his understanding of rhetoric as a part of his larger p…
Reconsidering the Intention or Purpose of Aristotle's Rhetoric
This essay engages two contemporary views as to the authorial purposes of the Rhetoric. Advocates of one view maintain that Aristotle valued democracy and understood rhetoric to be a form of positive civic or democratic discourse and that the Rhetoric was written to express this view, while others suggest that Aristotle's purpose in writing the Rhetoric was to instruct members of the Academy and Lyceum in the "necessary evil" of using rhetoric to…
Plato's Denunciation of Rhetoric in the Phaedrus
Contrary to a prevailing view within rhetoric and composition circles that finds a positive view of rhetoric in the Phaedrus, I contend that Plato mockingly denounces rhetoric in the Phaedrus. To support this claim, I argue that the Phaedrus is an unmistakable response to Isocrates' Against the Sophists and needs to be understood as part of this dynamic dialogue and that in the Phaedrus Plato is distinguishing his philosophical method, as he conc…
Strabo, Plutarch, Porphyry and the Transmission and Composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric—a Hunch
Scholars who have been writing recently about the unity and composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric make either brief or no mention of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's texts. This essay addresses this void by first presenting and discussing Strabo's, Plutarch's, and Porphyry's accounts of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's and Theophrastus' texts in conjunction with discussing the list of works that Diogenes La…
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