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From the Virtues of Argumentation to the Happiness of Dispute

  • Bruno Mastroianni

Efficient debate training should develop the ability to manage real discussions and not just be a laboratory for ideal talks. In this regard, the perspective of the virtues of argumentation is particularly suitable. Virtuous arguing allows the recognition of the other's difference – the contemplation of difference. Using Aristotelian ideas of contemplation as happiness opens up the possibility of accepting the arguers' imperfections and configure disputes suitable for producing shared outcomes, making them genuinely deliberative.

  • Keywords:
  • Argumentation Theory,
  • Virtue Argumentation Theory,
  • Delibertive debate,
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Bruno Mastroianni

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5071-762X

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Chapter Title

From the Virtues of Argumentation to the Happiness of Dispute

Authors

Bruno Mastroianni

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English

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10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1.04

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2021

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Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate

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Adelino Cattani, Bruno Mastroianni

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168

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2021

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Firenze University Press

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Communication and Philosophical Cultures. Researches and Instruments

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