Wareh isocrates biography

  • It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school.
  • In this excellent book, Tarik Wareh attempts a thorough reconsideration of the links between Isocrates and his school, and the schools of Plato.
  • The biographical approaches of Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius can be traced to fourth century B.C. Greek prose encomia.

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    Now Available Online – The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers

    The CHS is pleased to announce that Tarik Wareh’s The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophersis now available online on the CHS website.
    The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. Tarik Wareh shows that when Aristotle illustrates his ethical theory by reference to the practical arts, this is no simple appeal to a homespun commonsense analogy, but a sign of dependence on the traditions and concepts of rhetorical and empirical methodology. Likewise, when Plato in the Phaedrus constructs the possibility of a truly philosophical rhetoric on the model of “Hippocratic” medicine, his uncomfortable consciousness o

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    Description for The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the PhilosophersPaperback. This book is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
    This book is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It argues that Isocrates' contemporary theory of training and self-formulation was an important provacation and creative inspiration to such works as Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Plato's Phaedrus. The second half of the book brings together the fragmentary evidence for the participat

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    The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers

    Tarik Wareh

    The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played bygd their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. Tarik Wareh shows that when Aristotle illustrates his ethical theory bygd reference to the practical…


    The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It focuses on the important role played by their rival Isocrates and the rhetorical education offered in his school. Tarik Wareh shows that when Aristotle illustrates his ethical theory by reference to the practical arts, this fryst vatten no simple appeal to a homespun commonsense analogy, but a sign