Rhetoric and philosophy

The various reasons for the importance of the book "Rhetoric and Philosophy" in the works of Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri by Professor Idris Jebri. It presents a rhetorical approach to one of the most influential Arab philosophers in contemporary Arab thought, focusing on two eternal works: the "Quadripartite Critique of Arab Reason" and the analysis of religious discourse. Dr. Idris Jebri studies Professor Al-Jabri as a philosopher viewed as a rhetorician, analyzing his perceptions of Arabic rhetoric, and its role in shaping the Arab mind on one hand, and in analyzing the Holy Quran on the other. Thus, the book "Rhetoric and Philosophy" opens an important horizon for rhetorical study, which is the philosophical text, and emphasizes the importance of rhetoric in understanding major intellectual projects, and monitors the impact of the concepts built by philosophers for the science of rhetoric and eloquent speech in their philosophical projects. Dr. Idris Jebri starts from a firm belief in the importance of the rhetorical approach to philosophical works in general, and Professor Al-Jabri's works in particular. Dr. Jebri justifies this by stating that Professor Al-Jabri's works are "surrounded by rhetoric with its various foundational concepts, and governed by it. And can we speak of persuasion without rhetoric and its imaginative and argumentative techniques? More than that, can a rational or non-rational philosophical discourse be produced using natural language, in the fields of ethics, values, religion, and politics, based on Descartes' rationality and Comte's positivism, and others? Has philosophy, according to Perelman and others, yet been convinced that its domain is probability, and thus argumentation, which according to Mayer is 'what philosophers never want to hear,' including Professor Al-Jabri himself? Of course, the questions posed by Dr. Idris Jebri do not aim to obtain an answer, but rather to affirm the respondent's point of view, and their goal is to emphasize the 'necessity' of rhetoric for philosophical practice, to the extent that it indicates that philosophy is a rhetorical (probabilistic) discourse, as we deduce from the last question.