Peter S. Eardley
3Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Abstract: This chapter examines the three most important phases in the development of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy in the medieval period: the so-called ‘Christian Rhetoric’ of the Early Church Father St. Augustine; the general attitude of the Arabic philosophical tradition that tended to regard rhetoric as a more primitive and popular form of argumentation, closely associated with religion and politics, than dialectic and demonstrative science which were associated with philosophical wisdom; and the reintroduction of Aristotle’s Rhetoric into the Latin West during the scholastic period and its reception by the prominent theologian and Aristotelian commentator Giles ...
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