An edition of Reason's dark champions
(2010)
Reason's dark champions
constructive strategies of Sophistic argument
by Christopher W. Tindale
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Table of Contents
Sophistic argument and the early tradition
Introduction
The category 'Sophist' : who counts?
The figure of socrates
Sophistic argument : contrasting views
Against the Sophists
Figures of influence
Positive views of Sophistic argument
Resistance to revision
Making the weak argument the stronger
A problem of translation
Eristics and the Euthydemus
Antiphon the Sophist
Protagorean rhetoric
Plato's Sophists
Platonic and Sophistic argument and the 'Sophist dialogues'
Public and private argument
Plato's view of argument
A question of method
Imitation and method : eristic and the Peritrope
The veracity of Plato's testimony
The Sophists and fallacious argument: aristotle's legacy
The sophists and fallacy
The sophistical refutations
Fallacy in the Euthydemus
Lessons from the Euthydemus
Contrasting refutations
Sophistic strategies of argumentation
Rhetoric and argumentation
Rhetoric and sophistry
Extending Sophistic argument : Alcidamas and Isocrates
What is Eikos? : the argument from likelihood
The meaning of likelihood
Examples from Antiphon
The range of Eikos arguments
Evaluating Eikos arguments
Contemporary appearances : Walton and the plausibility argument
Turning tables : roots and varieties of the Peritrope
What trope is the Peritrope?
Defining the Peritrope
Reversal arguments in Gorgias and Antiphon
Socratic and Sophistic refutations again
Contemporary reversals
Evaluation
Contrasting arguments : Antilogoi or Antithesis
The concepts of Antilogoi and Antithesis
History of the Antilogoi
The dissoi logoi
Antithesis and the counterfactual
Examples of Antilogoi : Gorgias, Antiphon, Prodicus, Thucydides, Antisthenes
Purpose and evaluation
Contemporary echoes
Signs, commonplaces, and allusions
Modes of proof
Arguing from signs
Commonplaces
Allusions
More recent echoes
Ethotic argument : witness testimony and the appeal to character
Ethos
The appeal to one's own character
Witnesses
Funeral speeches
Promotion of character
Attacking character
The use of ethotic argument and the modern ad hominem
Justice and the value of Sophistic argument
Truth and morality : reasoning in the dark
A human justice
Sophistic argument and justice
Kinds of Sophist
Sophistic argument in the present.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
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