Preserved sophistic rhetoric as part of Aristotle legacy to the history of legal persuasion
| Autor | Lourenço Torres |
| Ocupação do Autor | Lawyer and Law teacher in Faculdade Joaquim Nabuco, Recife/PE/Brazil |
| Páginas | 1794-1800 |
1794 • XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Preserved sophistic rhetoric as part of Aristotle
legacy to the history of legal persuasion
Lourenço Torres1
Abstract: This paper presents a study on the concept of legal persuasion and, in
particularthepossibletransitionthatthispracticesueredoveraconsiderable
periodoftimespecicallyduringtheSophisticperiodtotheAristotelianoneIt
studies the concept of legal persuasion over the time. Presents Plato’s ambigu-
ous relationship to Rhetoric and asks if the concept and practice of persuasion
havesueredthesamedisbeliefthatreceivedtheSophistsinthatlapseoftran-
sition. Also studies Aristotle’s compilation phase in his book Rhetoric and his
rhetorical persuasive emphasis. It concludes that Aristotle preserved the main
Sophistic arguments on persuasion.
Keywords: History of Philosophy. Legal Persuasion. Rhetoric.
1 Introduction: The concept and importance of persuasion.
Themaerofthepersuasionissomethingarguedlongtimeago
and, with certainty, it is not restricts to the sudden interest that have
beengiven to this subject in the recent years with the aempt of un-
derstand or to analyze it in an instrumental way as abilities directed
to reach speech success or the decision success. This interest had made
possible the institutionalization of its study in such a way that it is pos-
sibletondspecialized coursesin importantuniversities thatare only
1
José Lourenço Torres Neto is a lawyer and Law teacher in Faculdade Joaquim Na-
buco - Recife/PE/Brazil. Has Master degree in eory, Sociology and Philosophy of
Law by UFPE (Brazil); is Bachelor in Law and Procedural Law specialist by UNINAS-
SAU campus Recife/PE (Brazil); is also a researcher member of the Rhetorics in History
of Brazilian Legal Ideas UFPE (Brazil) researching group coordinated by Prof. Dr. João
Maurício Adeodato. Email: lourenconeto@yahoo.com. CV Lattes at:
br/7901606887149048>.
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