Article
Spanish
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oai:doaj.org/article:610f50eaa9ea46afb54cbd61895e6682>
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DOI: <
10.14422/pen.v70.i262.y2014.003>
Abstract
In this article, I intend to show that Quintiliano’s idea that the knowledge that philosophy has previously adopted as one of its own has belonged to rhetoric is reinforced by the need, demonstrated above all by steoicism, to regain a truly persuasive narrative, abandoning flat language and without brightness, in order to be able to fully fulfil the possibility of delivering the most excellent content in the context of citizen life. This requires testing, deleting the auditorium and moving the effects. Thus, Stoic philosophy is shown by Quintiliano as an in-depth knowledge and an exemplary ethical matrix, which, however, calls for lively, persuasive and brilliant language in which to offer its most dignified expression. San Agustín, formed in the Roman rhetoric tradition, takes on elements already present in Quintiliano, but offers a different response to the problem of relations between philosophy and rhetoric, recognising the truths of Platonism, but at the same time showing that both philosophy and rhetoric need to be ultimately guided by the Sagrada Escrituras.