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What role does reason play in our lives? What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? For the Sake of Argument addresses questions such as these to consider the relationship between thought and character. Eugene Garver brings Aristotle's Rhetoric to bear on practical reasoning to show how the value of such thinking emerges when members of communities deliberate together, persuade each other, and are...
About the Author
Eugene Garver is a professor of philosophy at Saint John's University in Minnesota. He is the author of Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character and Machiavelli an the History of Prudence, as well as coeditor of Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy.
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"Speaking of justice, I have not, within the allotted space, been able to render it to this excellent book. Garver's arguments are intricate, sensitive, and frequently witty. His case is well made." (Mark Kingwell Ethics)
"A mature, ambitious and at times even passionate Aristotelian meditation on topics ranging from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the problem of pluralism and incommensurable goods. Students of Aristotle's Rhet. will learn...
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0226283976
- ISBN 13 9780226283975
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