What role does reason play in our lives? What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? "For the Sake of Argument" addresses questions such as these to consider the relationship between thought and character. Eugene Garver brings Aristotle's Rhetoric to bear on practical reasoning to show how the value of such thinking emerges when members of communities deliberate together, persuade each other, and are persuaded by each other. That is to say, when they argue. Garver roots deliberation and persuasion in political friendship instead of a neutral,...
What role does reason play in our lives? What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? "For the Sake of Argument" ...
What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing goodimproving one s community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing wellcultivating one s own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideasdoing good and doing wellwere one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting Aristotle s Ethics, Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception of the good...
What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing goodimp...
In this contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his treatise, the Rhetoric. Garver argues that Aristotle raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the Rhetoric for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue and character, Garver treats the Rhetoric as philosophy and connects its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics.
In this contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his treatise, the Rhetoric. Garver a...
Unknown to many, unintelligible to some, Richard McKeon (1900-1985) is considered by those familiar with his work to be among the most important of all twentieth-century philosophers. In a career that spanned seven decades, McKeon published eleven books and more than 150 articles, inspired and intimidated generations of students (among them Richard Rorty, Wayne Booth, and Paul Goodman), and received most of the honors available to an American philosopher. As a teacher and administrator at the University of Chicago, he was instrumental in founding its general education program and initiating...
Unknown to many, unintelligible to some, Richard McKeon (1900-1985) is considered by those familiar with his work to be among the most important of al...
Man is a political animal, Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the "Politics." In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle s claim and explores the treatise s relevance to ongoing political concerns. Often dismissed as overly grounded in Aristotle s specific moment in time, in fact the "Politics" challenges contemporary understandings of human action and allows us to better see ourselves today. Close examination of Aristotle s treatise, Garver finds, reveals a significant, practical role...
Man is a political animal, Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the "Politics." In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political...
Man is a political animal, Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle s claim and explores the treatise s relevance to ongoing political concerns. Often dismissed as overly grounded in Aristotle s specific moment in time, in fact the Politics challenges contemporary understandings of human action and allows us to better see ourselves today. Close examination of Aristotle s treatise, Garver finds, reveals a significant,...
Man is a political animal, Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of poli...
What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing goodimproving one s community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing wellcultivating one s own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideasdoing good and doing wellwere one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting Aristotle s Ethics, Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception of the good...
What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing goodimp...
