parrhesia

In the ancient Greek language, the word for 'confidence' is parrhesia.

Further, a user of parrhesia must be in a social position less empowered than those to whom he is revealing.

The parrhesia of faith must be matched by the boldness of reason.

"In rhetoric, however," I lazily wrote, "parrhesia has a specialized meaning."

In rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as: to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking.

There are several conditions upon which the traditional Ancient Greek notion of parrhesia relies.

Parrhesia was a fundamental component of the democracy of Classical Athens.

Because of Christ, we 'have parrhesia towards God', says another New Testament passage.

Foucault's use of parrhesia, he tells us, is troubled by our modern day Cartesian model of evidential necessity.

The Double Criticism of parrhesia.

Here Foucault discusses Diogenes' antics in relation to the speaking of truth (parrhesia) in the ancient world.

His talk was entitled "Technology's Challenge to Democracy", and a related essay was subsequently published in the online journal Parrhesia.

Parrhesia was also a central concept for the Cynic philosophers, as epitomized in the shameless speech of Diogenes of Sinope.

Aphasia and Parrhesia: Code and Speech in the Neural Topographies of the Net.

Inside the Council ruled the democratic principles of isegoria (equality of word) and of parrhesia (freedom of speech), to which the king subjects himself like the other members.

For instance, a pupil speaking the truth to an instructor would be an accurate example of parrhesia, whereas an instructor revealing the truth to his or her pupils would not.

Now we're into a whole nother problem: parrhesia, accent on the reezh, the Greek word for "speaking boldly of something obnoxious," which can be stretched into a a second sense of "excuse the joke."

Michel Foucault developed the concept of parrhesia as a mode of discourse in which one speaks openly and truthfully about one's opinions and ideas without the use of rhetoric, manipulation, or generalization.

A french philosopher Michel Foucault, in lectures given at Berkeley and Boulder, made the same argument for Socrates' failure to invoke 'parrhesia', freedom of speech, the obligation to speak the truth for the common good at personal risk, in his own defense at his trial, preferring to die in obedience to law as above men.