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Thomas Aquinas on Persuasion
Jeffrey J. Maciejewski
其他書名
Action, Ends, and Natural Rhetoric
出版Lexington Books, 2013-12-19
主題Philosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / General
ISBN07391712919780739171295
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eO11AgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This analysis of the human need to persuade offers a new, creative, application of Aristotelian essentialism to human discourse. Using Thomas Aquinas’s adaptation of essentialism as a starting point, Jeffrey J. Maciejewski argues that persuasion is natural to human beings and that it possesses dispositional properties that bring about stages of human action that ultimately harmonize the operations of the mind in addition to harmonizing human relationships. Aquinas’s philosophy of human nature is reviewed and re-examined in order to discover why it is that humans need to persuade themselves and each other. The book should be of considerable interest to scholars of human nature, Thomist philosophy, and those interested in the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory.