![]() Brink likewise observes that Horace's Socraticae … chartae ( A.P. ![]() This interpretation conforms to the use of καΘόλον in the Poetics to express, as Else insists (273-4), the ‘universal’ of ‘practical questions of human living,’ not of metaphysical generalities on such subjects as the motions of the stars. As von Arnim suggests in his introduction, so important for the history of the thesis and its place in rhetoric, Hermagoras, though welcoming general philosophical questions, may not himself have admitted general questions of the more specialized sciences ( Leben und Werke des Dio von Prusa 95). 1.153-7) - as expressed in this section, is a slight modification of the more conventional interpretation in AHF 25. Such a concern with equity encourages the least specialized intentions of both law and philosophy to liberalize the more conservative forms of each.Ĩ The consistency of Cicero's earlier and later views with regard to theses - as indeed to the priority of the prudential over the speculative faculty generally ( De off. The ‘philosophy of law,’ a phrase combining in itself philosophical and rhetorical discourse, might elude both the empirical bondage to individually discrete cases and the conceptualist bondage to a deductive application of statutes and precedents to circumstances for which they were not designed (228). Cohen has suggested the study of jurisprudence might be able to make to a contemporary philosophy reduced to ‘a purely formal discipline,’ that is ‘to such formal problems as the relation of mind or thought to reality’ (‘Jurisprudence as a Philosophical Discipline,’ Jour. The ‘material’ contribution ( ὔλη) of the rhetorical hypothesis to literature resembles the contribution which M. ![]() Subsequent references will be to this edition. Since the premises of its emergence were to determine its methods of survival and transmission, I shall briefly recapitulate my previous analysis of them as an introduction to the present essay.ģ Institutio oratoria, trans. The adoption of terms from medicine, politics, ethics, geometry, dialectic, and rhetoric by those who first discussed the purposes and deficiencies of fiction reveals the way in which a theory of literature may have been forming in its borrowed vocabulary prior to the recorded documents, as well as the ways in which later theorists would perceive, define, and defend their critical principles. In the first, ‘The Ancient Hypothesis of Fiction: An Essay on the Origins of Literary Theory,’ I described how the nature and sources of literary terminology might indicate the premises upon which a theory of literature, in the sense of fiction or poesis, was conceived and defended. This is the second of several essays investigating the continuity of literary theory and of the principles which may account for its development.
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