"If philosophy aims at being a theoretical mode of thought and speech, can it have a rhetorical character and be expre…"

"According to the traditional interpretation Plato’s attitude against rhetoric is a rejection of the doxa, or opinion,…"

"In the second part of the Phaedrus Plato attempts to clarify the nature of “true” rhetoric. … it does not arise from …"

"We are forced to distinguish between three kinds of speech: (1) The external, “rhetorical speech,” in the common mean…"

"The general opinion … is that the humanist tradition is primarily of literary and aesthetical significance rather tha…"

"If Descartes’ main aspirations are directed towards a “first truth,” it follows necessarily that the sphere of pure p…"

"The art of eloquence belongs to the realm of probability because it constantly directs its glance at the specific, va…"

"The defects of rationalistic, critical philosophy are much more important than they appear at first sight. By failing…"

"Vico claims that the aim of philosophy is the problem of "finding," and he identifies the theory of "finding" with "t…"

"In Quintilian’s expositions there appears a note of melancholy when he discovers that toward the decline of life, the…"