Reason's dark champions
Subtitle: constructive strategies of Sophistic argument
By: Christopher W. Tindale.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781570038785
Subjects: Sophists (Greek philosophy); Reasoning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sophistic argument and the early tradition; title: Introduction; title: The category 'Sophist' : who counts?; title: The figure of socrates; title: Sophistic argument : contrasting views; title: Against the Sophists; title: Figures of influence; title: Positive views of Sophistic argument; title: Resistance to revision; title: Making the weak argument the stronger; title: A problem of translation; title: Eristics and the Euthydemus; title: Antiphon the Sophist; title: Protagorean rhetoric; title: Plato's Sophists; title: Platonic and Sophistic argument and the 'Sophist dialogues'; title: Public and private argument; title: Plato's view of argument; title: A question of method; title: Imitation and method : eristic and the Peritrope; title: The veracity of Plato's testimony; title: The Sophists and fallacious argument: aristotle's legacy; title: The sophists and fallacy; title: The sophistical refutations; title: Fallacy in the Euthydemus; title: Lessons from the Euthydemus; title: Contrasting refutations; title: Sophistic strategies of argumentation; title: Rhetoric and argumentation; title: Rhetoric and sophistry; title: Extending Sophistic argument : Alcidamas and Isocrates; title: What is Eikos? : the argument from likelihood; title: The meaning of likelihood; title: Examples from Antiphon; title: The range of Eikos arguments; title: Evaluating Eikos arguments; title: Contemporary appearances : Walton and the plausibility argument; title: Turning tables : roots and varieties of the Peritrope; title: What trope is the Peritrope?; title: Defining the Peritrope; title: Reversal arguments in Gorgias and Antiphon; title: Socratic and Sophistic refutations again; title: Contemporary reversals; title: Evaluation; title: Contrasting arguments : Antilogoi or Antithesis; title: The concepts of Antilogoi and Antithesis; title: History of the Antilogoi; title: The dissoi logoi; title: Antithesis and the counterfactual; title: Examples of Antilogoi : Gorgias, Antiphon, Prodicus, Thucydides, Antisthenes; title: Purpose and evaluation; title: Contemporary echoes; title: Signs, commonplaces, and allusions; title: Modes of proof; title: Arguing from signs; title: Commonplaces; title: Allusions; title: More recent echoes; title: Ethotic argument : witness testimony and the appeal to character; title: Ethos; title: The appeal to one's own character; title: Witnesses; title: Funeral speeches; title: Promotion of character; title: Attacking character; title: The use of ethotic argument and the modern ad hominem; title: Justice and the value of Sophistic argument; title: Truth and morality : reasoning in the dark; title: A human justice; title: Sophistic argument and justice; title: Kinds of Sophist; title: Sophistic argument in the present.