Wilfried Stroh
2Rhetorik und Philosophie in hellenistischer Zeit und in Rom
Abstract: The article reconstructs the relation between rhetoric and philosophy, beginning from the time of Isocrates who attacked Socratic philosophers and Plato who was the first to deny that rhetoric is an art at all. Both disciplines had a different educational impact and were in competition for students. Initially rhetoric, because of its practical value, was more successful than philosophy whose teachers taught rhetorical theory indeed but gave no practical instruction. So rhetoricians were not in need of answering the invectives they were bombarded with by philosophers, especially by Critolaus in the second century B.C., when Hermagoras had given rhetoric a new ...
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