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Pistis, Persuasion, And Logos In Aristotle, Owen Goldin
Pistis, Persuasion, And Logos In Aristotle, Owen Goldin
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
The core sense of pistis as understood in Posterior Analytics, De Anima, and the Rhetoric is not that of a logical relation in which cognitively grasped propositions stand in respect to one another, but the result of an act of socially embedded interpersonal communication, a willing acceptance of guidance offered in respect to action. Even when pistis seems to have an exclusively epistemological sense, this focal meaning of pistis is implicit; to have pistis in a proposition is to willingly accept that proposition as a basis for some kind of activity (albeit possibly theoretical) as a result of some kind …
The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy Of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Charles William Peterson
The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy Of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Charles William Peterson
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation examines the way Philip Melanchthon, author of the Augsburg Confession and Martin Luther's closest co-worker, sought to establish the relationship between faith and reason in the cradle of the Lutheran tradition, Wittenberg University. While Melanchthon is widely recognized to have played a crucial role in the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century as well as in the Renaissance in Northern Europe, he has in general received relatively little scholarly attention, few have attempted to explore his philosophy in depth, and those who have examined his philosophical work have come to contradictory or less than helpful conclusions …
The Rhetoric Of Parody In Plato’S Menexenus, Franco Trivigno
The Rhetoric Of Parody In Plato’S Menexenus, Franco Trivigno
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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