Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates

Authors

Eugene Garver, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2004

Disciplines

Ancient Philosophy | Arts and Humanities | Classics | Philosophy

Abstract

Book Description:
In this volume, ten leading scholars of Classics, rhetoric, and philosophy offer a pathfinding interdisciplinary study of Isocrates as a civic educator. Their essays are grouped into sections that investigate Isocrates' program in civic education in general and in comparison to the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary views about civic education. The contributors show that Isocrates' rhetorical innovations carved out a deliberative process that attached moral choices to political questions and addressed ethical concerns as they could be realized concretely. His notions of civic education thus created perspectives that, unlike the elitism of Aristotle, could be used to strengthen democracy.

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Garver, Eugene. “Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates.” In Isocrates and Civic Education, edited by Takis Poulakos and David Depew. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.