Author: Schrenk, Lawrence
Title: Cicero on rhetoric and philosophy: Tusculan Disputations I
Review/Collection: "Ancient Philosophy", 14
Place edition: Pittsburgh
Editor: Duquesne University Department of Philosophy
Year edition: 1994
Pages: 355-360
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: [APh] [Comment] Cicero finds Plato's Phaedo and its logical arguments insufficient to convince the reader of the correct attitude toward death. Tusc. Disp. 1 offers a Roman alternative that claims to be successful because it makes not only a rational appeal, but also a rhetorical one.
Works:
Author initials: Schrenk 1994
Title: Cicero on rhetoric and philosophy: Tusculan Disputations I
Review/Collection: "Ancient Philosophy", 14
Place edition: Pittsburgh
Editor: Duquesne University Department of Philosophy
Year edition: 1994
Pages: 355-360
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: [APh] [Comment] Cicero finds Plato's Phaedo and its logical arguments insufficient to convince the reader of the correct attitude toward death. Tusc. Disp. 1 offers a Roman alternative that claims to be successful because it makes not only a rational appeal, but also a rhetorical one.
Works:
Author initials: Schrenk 1994
