Listening to the logos [electronic resource] : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone.

By: Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rhetoric/communicationPublication details: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009Description: xii, 300 pISBN: 9781611171754 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Logos (Philosophy) | Philosophy, Ancient | Rhetoric, AncientGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 180 LOC classification: B187.L6 | J63 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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