Francisco Arenas-Dolz

The place of passions in the deliberation. What deliberative democracy can learn by aristotelian rhetoric

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to defend an adequate reading of Aristotle's deliberative rhetoric that allows us to understand practical rationalization as a process of interpretation of human actions. After the consideration of rhetoric as a general human ability that is indispensable for political coexistence, the impact of the Aristotelian rhetorical proposal is pressed, not just as a defense of the importance of rhetoric in a democratic society, but also as a novel attempt to understand what it means to speak of practical rationality.

Keywords

  • aristotelian rhetoric
  • deliberative democracy
  • passions
  • practical rationality

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