Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Miller, Clyde | Manchester, Peter | O'Byrne, Anne | Long, Christopher.
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Philosophy | Aristotle Plato Heidegger, Basic Concepts Aristotelian Philosophy, Fear Anxiety Philosophy, Phaedrus Aristotle Rhetoric, Phenomenology Rhetoric, Philosophy Rhetoric Plato
Department
Department of Philosophy.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76614
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
By developing Martin Heidegger's interpretation of Plato, Aristotle, and the Greek rhetorical tradition, this dissertation argues that rhetoric, understood as the discipline that best knows how to lead others with everyday speech, is crucial for rousing the desire to choose the philosophical life. This work focuses primarily on three texts: Plato's Phaedrus, Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Heidegger's 1924 lecture Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. It fleshes out Heidegger's concept of rhetoric by mapping it on to the development of Greek rhetorical theory, showing how rhetoric's philosophical potential comes to be realized and why Plato and Aristotle's philosophical investigation of rhetoric must be taken up anew. | 177 pages
Recommended Citation
Golden, Nanda, "Rhetoric and the Way to Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2504.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2504