{"id":3572,"date":"2011-01-04T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/terms-i-wish-we-could-resurrect-parrhesia\/"},"modified":"2011-01-04T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:56:20","slug":"terms-i-wish-we-could-resurrect-parrhesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/terms-i-wish-we-could-resurrect-parrhesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms I wish we could resurrect: Parrhesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parrhesia, a concept related to free speech, but also to truth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In the classic discipline of rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as: to speak candidly. The term is borrowed from the Greek\u00a0 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03c1\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03b1 (\u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd “all” + \u1fe5\u1fc6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \/ \u1fe5\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1 “utterance, speech”) meaning literally “to speak everything” and by extension “to speak freely,” “to speak boldly,” or “boldness.” It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk.<\/p>\n

Parrhesia was a fundamental component of the democracy of Classical Athens. [ED: Lets not idealized Greek democracy, though, which was problematic and oppressive in its own, historical ways<\/em>). In assemblies and the courts Athenians were free to say almost anything, and in the theatre, playwrights such as Aristophanes made full use of the right to ridicule whomever they chose. Elsewhere there were limits to what might be said; freedom to discuss politics, morals, religion, or to criticize people would depend on context: by whom it was made, and when, and how, and where. If a man was seen as immoral, or his views went contrary to popular opinion, then there were great risks involved in making use of such an unbridled freedom of speech, as Socrates found out when he was sentenced to death for (supposedly) introducing new gods and corrupting the young. Parrhesia was also a central concept for the Cynic philosophers, as epitomized in the shameless speech of Diogenes of Sinope<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Foucault wrote about parrhesia<\/a> (at the link, text of his seminars and writings on the subject):<\/p>\n

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So you see, the parrhesiastes is someone who takes a risk.<\/strong> Of course, this risk is not always a risk of life. When, for example, you see a friend doing something wrong and you risk incurring his anger by telling him he is wrong, you are acting as a parrhesiastes. In such a case, you do not risk your life, but you may hurt him by your remarks, and your friendship may consequently suffer for it. If, in a political debate, an orator risks losing his popularity because his opinions are contrary to the majority’s opinion, or his opinions may usher in a political scandal, he uses parrhesia. Parrhesia, then, is linked to courage in the face of danger: it demands the courage to speak the truth in spite of some danger<\/strong>. And in its extreme form, telling the truth takes place in the “game” of life or death.<\/p>\n

To summarize the foregoing, parrhesia is a kind of verbal activity where the speaker has a specific relation to truth through frankness, a certain relationship to his own life through danger, a certain type of relation to himself or other people through criticism (self-criticism or criticism of other people), and a specific relation to moral law through freedom and duty. More precisely, parrhesia is a verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth, and risks his life because he recognizes truth-telling as a duty to improve or help other people (as well as himself). In parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how some pundits and politicians would manage if they had to abide by these standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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