Citations:parrhesia
English citations of parrhesia
The asking of forgiveness to soften a blunt speech
edit- 1996, Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, page 133:
- by the figure of parrhesia we can similarly hope to contrive a tone of 'humble submission and modest insinuation', thereby forestalling any displeasure and offence at our speech.