修辞、政治与历史:《换物》对修辞术的辩护

Rhetoric,Politics and History:the Defense of Rhetoric in Isocrates’Antidosis

在修辞术的视野中,言辞或者话语构成人类政治生活最本质的部分。在希腊修辞术史上,《换物》一方面继承智者的观念,对修辞术实践进行辩护;另一方面坚持道德、公共利益等对修辞术的约束。从雅典的历史人物与雅典历史的重要事件中论证说服的技艺在历史中的作用,是《换物》对修辞术的独特论证方法,也是伊索格拉底的思想底色之一。

From the perspective of Rhetoric,speech or discourse constitutes the most essential part of human political life.In the history of Greek Rhetoric,on the one hand,Antidosis inherited the ideas of Sophists and defended the practice of Rhetoric;On the other hand,it adhered to the constraints of morality and public interest on Rhetoric.Demonstrating the role of the art of persuasion in history from the historical figures and important events in Athens is not only the unique demonstration method of Rhetoric,but also one of the ideological background of Isocrates.