A research on the significance of rhetoric in the tradition of republican thought

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03082
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: Omori Hidetomi 岡山大学, 社会文化科学研究科, 教授 (10362948)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 共和主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research clarified in part the significance of rhetoric in the tradition of republican thought. For that aim to achieve, I collected a pile of primary and secondary materials on the ancient Roman writers, such as Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus, in libraries from home and abroad, studied their works through consulting the secondary materials on them, which were published by D. Kapust or G. Remer, and found their conception of the relation between rhetoric and the republic. As some achievements, I published two of serial articles, Rhetoric and the Republic in Okayama Law Journal (1) vol.66 No.2 (2016) (2) vol.67 No.2 (2017), and reported in the seminar at Faculty of Law, Seikei University on January 2018.

Free Research Field

法哲学