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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Isocrates"”.
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Educational Views of an Ancient and A Modern: Isocrates and Robert Maynard Hutchins
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The Role of The Ancient Greek Rhetor in The Transmission of Collective Wisdom From Homer to Isocrates
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Discussion of the uses of the vocative or case of address in the orations of Antiphon, Andokides, Lysias, Isocrates, Aeschines and Demosthenes
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Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective
… by the priests' sexual abuse scandals, using Isocrates' theory of self-defense and self-representation as found in his Antidosis. The work conceptualizes the Catholic Church as a brand because it is a religious organization with an army of followers, is well-known, and is an indisputable …
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A Hermeneutic Composition Pedagogy: The Student as Self, Citizen, and Writer in Dewey, Arendt, and Ricoeur
… academics since the first schools were opened by Isocrates and Plato. The question now, as it has been since the days of Plato, is how to educate new citizens to become informed, engaged critics of their environments for the purpose of maintaining a healthy self governance and preserving the …
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The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism
… of nation through rhetorical figures such as Isocrates in Ancient Greece and Cicero in the Roman Republic; through Kant, the Enlightenment and modernity; and, through postmodern interpretations, I attempt to reconceptualize the nation as a communicative construct while pointing to what may lie …
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Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose
… categories and, especially, the place of poetry (Isocrates, Plato). The final chapter addresses Aristotle’s treatment of poetry. The foundation of the project is a semantic analysis of the language used to describe or single out a work or production as poetic. The primary terms are various POI- …
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Plato's View of Tyranny
… tradition, from Archilochus to Thucydides and Isocrates, to situate his critical view of tyranny. Then I proceed to explore the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of Plato's view of tyranny in relation to Thrasymachus' claim that tyranny or injustice makes one happy. I pay close attention to …
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
… than Baudrillard's own. Specifically, I show how Isocrates's Antidosis is successful in its creation of an ambivalent rhetorical space—a space that upends convention, dissolves logics, and ruptures values—and how James Frey's A Million Little Pieces is unsuccessful. In sum, my analysis of these …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
This study is, in part, a response to arguments that claim higher education fails to prepare students with fundamental communication skills necessary for everyday life and indicative of "educated" persons. Though the validity of such arguments is contestable, they nonetheless reflect fundamental …