Vol. 38 No. 1 (2018): Back to Ancient Questions? / Tornare alle domande degli Antichi?
Articles

La buona argomentazione: Aristotele nostro contemporaneo

Alessandro Prato
Dipartimento di Scienze sociali, politiche e cognitive - Università di Siena

Published 2018-07-23

Keywords

  • argumentative fallacies,
  • ethos,
  • logos,
  • manipulation,
  • reasoning,
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How to Cite

La buona argomentazione: Aristotele nostro contemporaneo. (2018). Teoria. Rivista Di Filosofia, 38(1), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.4454/teoria.v38i1.35

Abstract

The essay analyzes aristotelian theory of fallacy and its influence on modern linguistic philosophy from Locke to Bentham to investigate the mechanisms of incorrect and misleading reasoning and explaining the strategies of deceptive manipulation still present in public communication.