Original scientific paper
The Art of Rhetorics in the Old Croatian Philosophical Heritage
Ljerka Schiffler
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the centuries-old Croatian history of philosophy, the art of rhetorics, the phenomena of oratory and the orator, has been one of the dominant disciplines in nearly all the spiritual- historical epochs. In the European Middle Ages and the educational curriculum of the trivium within the septem artes liberales, its genesis was continued from the Classical Greek thought (the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, and others) to the Roman classics of rhetorics (Cicero, Quintilian, and others); in its reception through centuries, it had remained the paradigm of humanistic education, a cultural and spiritual ideal. It had remained that from the Latinist times to the modern age, for writers, philosophers, artists, scientists, diplomats, state and law theoreticians, until the “new rhetorics” of the 20th century. The relations among the disciplines of rhetorics, dialectics, logics, grammar, poetics, and mathematics, their confrontations, interdependence, and interpermeation, are evident in the abundant literature, books, treatises, dialogues, analyses, and interpretations. The reception of the Classical rhetorical works, orientations, tendencies, interpretations, and analyses, is enormous. This refers to the issues of the nature of the art of rhetorics, its definitions, forms, strategies and methods, functions and aims, its position, and its roles. The scope and multidimensionality of its determinants (the epistemological ones, as well the gnoseological, anthropological, linguistic, semantical, semiotic, poietical, artistic, aesthetical, ethical, pedagogical, social, legal, and political ones) are shown by the works written by Croatian philosophers, renowned and prominent persons, and often excellent orators themselves. The paper lists just a few of the many examples of the significant contributions to the Croatian history of rhetorics, made by the participants in the European dialogue of thought.
Keywords
philosophy; theology; rhetorics; language; thought; knowledge; exhortation; septem artes liberales; Croatian Latinism; literature; law; politics; diplomacy; Humanism and the Renaissance; Baroque; Plato; Aristotle; Cicero; Dante; M. Marulić; F. De Diversis; M. Vlačić- Ilirik; F. Vrančić; P. Skalić; F. Petrić; N. V. Gučetić; M. Monaldi
Hrčak ID:
72677
URI
Publication date:
16.9.2011.
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