Rhetoric and Public Reasoning: An Aristotelian Understanding of Political Deliberation

This essay asks why Aristotle, certainly no friend to unlimited democracy, seems so much more comfortable with unconstrained rhetoric in political deliberation than current defenders of deliberative democracy. It answers this question by reconstructing and defending a distinctly Aristotelian underst...

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Published inPolitical theory Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 417 - 438
Main Author Yack, Bernard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.08.2006
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Subjects
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Common good
Communities
Deliberative democracy
Deliberative rhetoric
Democracy
Ethics
Forensic rhetoric
Greco-Roman antiquity
Historical studies (History of philosophy. History of ideas)
Philosophy
Political ideas
Political philosophy
Political rhetoric
Political theory
Reason
Reasoning
Rhetoric
Antiquity
rhetoric
deliberation
deliberative democracy
Aristotle
Deliberation
Political philosophy
Democracy
Philosophy history
Rhetoric
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Summary:This essay asks why Aristotle, certainly no friend to unlimited democracy, seems so much more comfortable with unconstrained rhetoric in political deliberation than current defenders of deliberative democracy. It answers this question by reconstructing and defending a distinctly Aristotelian understanding of political deliberation, one that can be pieced together out of a series of separate arguments made in the Rhetoric, the Politics, and the Nicomachean Ethics.
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ISSN:0090-5917
1552-7476
DOI:10.1177/0090591706288232