Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Listening to the logos speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / [electronic resource] : Christopher Lyle Johnstone. - Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009. - xii, 300 p. - Studies in rhetoric/communication . - Studies in rhetoric/communication. .

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.

9781611171754 (electronic bk.)




Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.


Electronic books.

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