Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece /

Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) - Studies in rhetoric/communication . - Studies in rhetoric/communication. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.

Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.

An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle.

9781611171754 (electronic bk.) 161117175X (electronic bk.)

22573/ctv6vqvc0 JSTOR


Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Logos (Philosophie)
Philosophie ancienne.
Rhétorique ancienne.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Ancient & Classical.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetorik
Logos
Sprache--Philosophie--Geschichte Altertum.
Philosophie--Sprache--Geschichte Altertum.
Philosophie--Rhetorik--Geschichte Altertum.
Rhetorik--Philosophie--Geschichte Altertum.
langue--sagesse--Grèce antique.
interrogation (philosophie)--philosophie grecque antique--rhétorique.
langue--philosophie grecque antique--sagesse.
Grekisk filosofi.
Logos (filosofi)
Retorik--antiken.


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