Parresía: frankness and freedom of speech among the Greeks
Keywords:
parresia, freedom, turth, frankness, evidenceAbstract
This article delineates the meaning and use of the concept of parrhesia as a virtue of intellect and practical life among the Greeks. The article covers five topics: 1) Greek parrhesia as an ideal of civility and freedom; 2) The concept of parrhesia among Greek rhetoricians and philosophers; 3) Epicurus and the parrhesia proper to physicists; 4) The concept of parrhesia under the terms of the Epicurean ethos; 5) From Democritus to Epicurus, to Lucretius, and to Philodemus of Gadara
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