Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin, and receives ARC moneys to study the history of philosophy and its practices. Thanks here go to Mr NS and Dr WA. A concerned friend recently told me of an ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not only is the title character Rome’s premier imperialist – the very language breathes a ...

When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...