Listening to the logos speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece /

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Main Author: Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.