Rhetoric is the art of oration, and indeed was identified originally with the orators and their practice. Yet, during the history of western thought different thinkers have presented different view concerning its essence, its goal and its subjects.
The course presents, historically and philosophically, the central rhetorical views from ancient time to Perelman's "new rhetoric" of the twentieth century. It also deals with two issues between logics and rhetoric: "counter example", "rhetorical fallacies".