%0 Journal Article
%T Augustine’s critic of classical education from the New Rhetoric’s perspective
%A Collinet, Françoise
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Volume 20 (2020)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.20.008.12554
%N Volume 20, Issue 2
%P 73-83
%K new rhetoric, epideictic, education, cultural relativism, Saint Augustine
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/la-critique-augustinienne-de-leducation-classique-dans-les-confessions-lecture-neo-rhetorique
%X 
	This paper shouldn’t be considered as a specialized study on Augustinian texts. Its ambition is much limited: to show how the New Rhetoric offers a frame which helps to supplely address the competition between argumentative configurations emerging from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Saint Augustine’s Confessions, and in particular the critique of classical education which was the author’s own education, allows us examine 4 aspects which seem intimately intertwined in the Perelman’s system: (a) the relation between epideictic and education (as both reinforce the adhesion to fundamental values in a given society), (b) the socio-historically situated character of those values and (c) the interest of considering the New Rhetoric as a philosophical project?