摘要
The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of persuasion and what has been called here pre-persuasion in the perception of the world and of ourselves and in philosophical reflections in general,trying to show that,however original we have wanted to consider,throughout the centuries,the fundamental questions surrounding the ultimate meaning of things,such as“what is being?”,“what is good?”,or“what is the truth or the beauty?”,or yet,“who are we?”,there are always background persuasions that once made explicit by the rhetorical analysis method,it relativizes not only the possible answers,but the question itself.This,in turn,reveals the priority of persuasion on the perception and the unconfessed rhetoric of the speeches.The contribution of the present study is to avoid the naivety of objectivism and metaphysics,the claim of the ultimaverba,or last conversation and to prevent the illusion of definitive speech,seen,by Perelman,as a pseudo lay form of revelation.The only sacredness admitted which,therefore,pre-persuades us is,in Perelman‟s words,that of endless dialogue,in Blanchot‟s words,the infinite conversation,and,finally,in Rorty‟s words,the edifying philosophy.
