The aesthetics of argument
Warner, MartinAuthor
Argument and imagination are often interdependent. Martin Warner explores how this relationship bears on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion. He argues that the rationality of argument is not only a matter of deductive validity, but can be assessed in terms of criteria drawn from the study of imaginative literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Argument and imagination are often interdependent. Martin Warner explores how this relationship bears on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion. He argues that the rationality of argument is not only a matter of deductive validity, but can be assessed in terms of criteria drawn from the study of imaginative literature.
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From analogy to narrative -- From self-involvement to judgement: the potentialities of Plato's Phaedrus -- Dialectial drama: the dynamics of Plato's Symposium -- Philiosophical autobiography: St. Augustine and John Stuart Mill -- The fourth gospel's art of rational persuasion -- Philosophical poetry: the case of Four Quartets -- The "logic" of imagery 1: the poetic image -- The "logic" of imagery 2: logic, argument, and imagery.
Reasoning
Logic
Imagination
Logic
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion