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Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rhetoric/communicationPublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611171754
  • 161117175X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Listening to the logos.DDC classification:
  • 180 22
LOC classification:
  • B187.L6 J63 2009eb
Other classification:
  • CD 1610
  • 5,1
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Contents:
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.
Summary: An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle.
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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.

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

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