La rhétorique dans le livre III des Entretiens d’Épictète

A priori, there is a “tension” between the principles of Stoic philosophy, which include a rejection of anything in rhetoric that deviates from a pure and hard dialectic, and the cultural environment where Arrien and Epictetus evolved, where rhetoric was omnipresent, and this from the initial training. The purpose of this article is to analyze the manifestations of this presence of rhetoric in Book 3 of the Discourses, both as a traditional target of criticism and as an instrument of an extremely sophisticated pedagogy.