Logic and Rhetoric in Philosophical Dialogue

【摘要】：Philosophical dialogue as genre has a time-honoured history. In classical and late antiquity,from the early Socratic dialogues of Plato,through writings of Plutarch,Cicero,Tacitus,to Saint Augustine's De Magistro and Contra Academicos,the genre had already undergone several mutations. It remained a dominant discourse from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and was popular among such diverse writers as Castiglione,Galileo,More,Hobbes,Hume,Berkeley,Locke,Diderot,and Voltaire.