Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus

In a novel interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates' defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Soc...

• | Author: Tiago Lier
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1498562809
• | ISBN-13: 9781498562805