| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in rhetoric/communication
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Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Logos (Philosophy)
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Logos (Philosophy) |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947- Listening to the logos. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2009 9781570038549 (DLC) 2009021900 (OCoLC)326491080 |
| ISBN |
9781611171754 (electronic book) |
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161117175X (electronic book) |
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9781570038549 |
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1570038546 |
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