Dangerous supplement: dialectics and rhetoric in Aristotle

Authors

  • Valeria Campos Salvatierra Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

The dispute between dialectics and rhetoric in Plato’s texts is decisive for the configuration of a logic of oppositions as the normative basis of Greek philosophy. We will show how Aristotle, heir and critic of the former, returns to this controversy by destabilizing the strict hierarchy established by Plato, trough a reconfiguration of the dialectical order by a logic of the supplement.

Keywords:

Dialectics, rhetoric, supplement, opposition, violence

Author Biography

Valeria Campos Salvatierra, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Dra. en Filosofía. Profesora Asociada Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso