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Institutio Oratoria: Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza

By Jan , Rothkamm

Book information

Publisher
BRILL, Rothkamm
Year
2009
ISBN
9789004173286, 2008055175, 1372232613, 9004173285, 9789047426752, 9047426754
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3334793 bytes)
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history 172
Pages
539\557
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:57

Description

Rhetoric as Propaedeutics to Philosophy this is the upshot of the present study on philological aspects in the life and works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes and Baruch de Spinoza. Against the backdrop of a general historical setting the book provides a detailed account of the different educational paths of the four philosophers as well as their attempts to continue rhetorical training during adulthood. Additional chapters on preferred language(s), reading habits, didactic aims and writing strategies produce further evidence for the hypothesis of a lifelong occupation with the classical art of argument and persuasion. It thus emerges that Rhetoric retains its relevance for the making of a philosopher in the Seventeenth century even among reformist and rationalist movements that are commonly portrayed as hostile to the classical tradition."

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