On Some Rhetorical-pedagogical Strategies in Epictetus' Discourses Concerning Proairesis
The paper aims to clarify some features of Epictetus' specific usage of the concept of proairesis. This will be done by suggesting that a number of problematic expressions concerning proairesis and its freedom should be understood as rhetorical-pedagogical expressions of Epictetus’ intellectual...
- Autores:
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Rodrigo Sebastián Braicovich; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
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- Fecha de publicación:
- 2013
- Institución:
- Universidad del Norte
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Uninorte
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:manglar.uninorte.edu.co:10584/2839
- Acceso en línea:
- http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/eidos/article/view/4975
http://hdl.handle.net/10584/2839
- Palabra clave:
- Rights
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
| Summary: | The paper aims to clarify some features of Epictetus' specific usage of the concept of proairesis. This will be done by suggesting that a number of problematic expressions concerning proairesis and its freedom should be understood as rhetorical-pedagogical expressions of Epictetus’ intellectualism. I will mainly focus on a series of problematic passages that have been discussed by several commentators concerning the concept of proairesis, and I will suggest that those passages are best interpreted as rhetorical or, better, pedagogical expressions of Epictetus' strictly intellectualist approach to the psychology of action. |
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