Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
9-1993
Publication Source
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Volume
137
Issue
3
Start Page
332
Last Page
338
Abstract
The "most characteristic function of a man of practical wisdom is to deliberate well" wrote the author of the rhetoric text that anchors Western discussion of public discourse. In the society envisioned by Aristotle, the end of rhetoric was judgment (krinate).
Recommended Citation
Jamieson, K. H. (1993). Discourse and the Democratic Ideal. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 137 (3), 332-338. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/345
Date Posted: 15 April 2014