Listening to the logos [electronic resource] : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rhetoric/communicationPublication details: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009.Description: xii, 300 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 180 22
LOC classification:
  • B187.L6 J63 2009eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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