Algunos rasgos aristotélicos en la concepción de la Texnh de los escritos sobre retórica de Filodemo de Gádara

Abstract

There is a wide agreement among scholars about the strong empiricism underlying the epistemological doctrines of epicurean philosophers. Moreover, recent interpretations have underlined the empirical basis in Philodemus’ approach to the concept of ????? in his ???? ?????????. Our paper focuses on the relationship between Philodemus’ empiricist approach to technicity and rhetoric and some aristotelian sources, in an attempt to add some interpretative clues to those already provided by epicurean texts explicitly addressed by Philodemus. Particularly, Aristotle’s thesis on the origin of ????? in the first lines of his Metaphysics, its impact on the proemium of his Rhetoric and his concepts of ???? and ???????? are examined and confronted with Philodemus’ developments on the subject.