Keywords
democracy
Plato
Aristotle
Descartes
Perelman
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Abstract
With no neglect not even minimizing the permanent conflict between those who aspire to grasp the essence of things and those who pursue the assent of their audiences, the author of this article studies the strained relations between rhetoric and philosophy. He wants to show up how both of them share democracy as a common ground and as an endless exercise in a good argued way of life. Taking the known conflict between sophists and philosophers as a starting point, and getting along through the intellectual events that marked a breakdown between philosophy and rhetoric and a gap in modern thought, the author stresses the current relevance a philosophy inspired on rhetoric might have today. So, he examines Plato's, Aristotle's, Descartes', Ricœur's and, mainly, Perelman's contributions to this debate.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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