Who has a legitimate claim to wisdom? Emily Hulme argues that Plato's response to this question was shaped by the concept of technē (art, craft, expertise, profession) and that he developed the notion of philosophy as a genuine profession in the dialogues against the rival claims of practices like sophistry The first part of the book concerns technē in general, drawing on literary, epigraphic, and art historical evidence to discuss this concept in Greek thought and culture and explaining the position of this term in Plato's epistemological vocabulary. The second part offers close readings of a handful of key dialogues: philosophy defined against sophistry in Euthydemus, Hippias Minor, Protagoras, and Gorgias; the profession of philosopher-rulers in the Republic; and philosophy versus politics in the Sophist and Statesman
This paper is a contribution to a special issue of Hobbes Studies considering Quentin Skinner’s
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
at thirty. One of the central claims of Skinner’s book is that, having rejected humanist methods of composition based on the manipulation of rhetorical proofs for a metho...
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
This paper pays tribute to Thomas Jennings Pace, whose teaching and scholarship in the philosophy of communication left a lasting mark on those fortunate enough to study with him. Drawing on the intellectual traditions Pace transmitted across decades of teaching, the paper explores three interlocking philosophical fram...
The paper reconsiders Aristotle's Poetics as an integral part of his ontological and teleological philosophy rather than as an isolated aesthetic text. It argues that the principles of unity, causality, and necessity in tragic composition reflect the same conceptual framework that governs natural processes in Aristotle...
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