Concept

Parrhesia

Overview

In rhetoric, parrhesia (Greek: παρρησία) is candid speech, speaking freely. It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk.

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Philosophers who discussed Parrhesia

• Lucian

Related ideas

• Aristophanes
• Hellenistic philosophy
• Ancient Greek
• Critic
• Mind–body dualism
• Cynicism (philosophy)
• Freedom of speech
• New Testament
• Obligation
• Diogenes
• Ataraxia
• Rhetoric
• René Descartes
• Socrates
• Philodemus
• Truth
• Torah
• Epicureanism
• Discourse
• Michel Foucault
• Ancient Greece
• Euripides

Place in the tradition

Part of Cynicism (philosophy).

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