La critique augustinienne de l’éducation classique dans les Confessions. Lecture néo-rhétorique
Augustine’s critic of classical education from the New Rhetoric’s perspective
Author(s): Françoise CollinetSubject(s): Philosophy, Education, Ancient World, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: new rhetoric; epideictic; education; cultural relativism; Saint Augustine
Summary/Abstract: This paper shouldn’t be considered as a specialized study on Augustinian texts. Its ambition is much limited: to show how the New Rhetoric offers a frame which helps to supplely address the competition between argumentative configurations emerging from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Saint Augustine’s Confessions, and in particular the critique of classical education which was the author’s own education, allows us examine 4 aspects which seem intimately intertwined in the Perelman’s system: (a) the relation between epideictic and education (as both reinforce the adhesion to fundamental values in a given society), (b) the socio-historically situated character of those values and (c) the interest of considering the New Rhetoric as a philosophical project?
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 20/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 73-83
- Page Count: 11
- Language: French