I. The Rehabilitation of Rhetoric.- II. Plato and The Sophists.- III. Isocrates and the Power of Logos.- IV. The History and System of Greek Rhetoric.- V. Rhetoric and Philosophy in Rome.- VI. Augustine and Rhetoric.- VII. The Liberal Arts and Education in the Middle Ages.- VIII. The Italian Humanists.- IX. Francis Bacon, Ren¿escartes and the New Science.- X. Pascal and the Art of Persuasion.- XI. Sacred Eloquence.- XII. Kant and the Enlightenment.- XIII. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.- XIV. Nietzsche and Philosophy.- XV. Philosophy and Metaphor.- XVI. Who is Actually Speaking Whenever Something is Said?.