La virtud como finalidad más propia de la argumentación

Abstract

This text discusses the traditional idea that the practice of argumentation has as its paramount aim to convince or persuade others. If this were merely so, the recourse to vicious forms of argumentation would not be clearly discarded, and the practice of arguing cannot be considered fully accomplished. It seems rather that it can only be so if conviction and persuasion are considered only means for a further purpose: virtue itself or, in general, a good life (in a Socratic way).