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Truth and falsehood for non-representationalists: Gorgias on the normativity of language [PDF]
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2017 Sophists and rhetoricians like Gorgias are often accused of disregarding truth and rationality: their speeches seem to aim only at effective persuasion, and be constrained by nothing but persuasiveness itself.
Juan Pablo Bermúdez
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Gorgias' Revising of Ancient Epistemology: on Non-Being by Gorgias and its Paraphrases
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2021 The philosophical nature of the two versions of paraphrasing the Gorgias’ treatise On Non-Being — the skeptical version by Sextus Empiricus and the peripatetic version by an anonymous author — are discussed.
Marina Volf
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What Performative Contradiction Reveals: Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias on Sophistry
Humanities, 2023 Socrates’ use of performative contradiction against sophistic theories is a recurrent motif in Plato’s dialogues. In the case of Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias, Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras’ homo mensura doctrine and Gorgias’ doctrine of the
Robert Metcalf
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2021 Assuming that a nihilist reading of Gorgias’ thought is to be ruled out, the issue of ‘not being’ remains one of the thorniest in his philosophy; indeed, it is fair to conclude that Gorgias is deeply concerned with ‘not being’.
Erminia Di Iulio
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The Common Origins of Philosophical and Political Power in Plato's Gorgias
Plato, 2021 Plato’s Gorgias concerns the tension between political and philosophical power. In it, Socrates and Gorgias discuss rhetoric’s power, which Gorgias claims is universal, containing all powers, enabling the rhetorician to rule over others politically ...
Lydia Winn
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NARRATOLOGISCHE ANALYSE DES GORGIAS-ROMANS „VERIPHANTORS BETROGENER FRONTALBO”
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021 A Narratological Analysis of the Novel Veriphantors Betrogener Frontalbo by Johann Gorgias. Veriphantors Betrogener Frontalbo is the most important novel by the German-Transylvanian writer Johann Gorgias.
Zoltán MIKÓ
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Hermeneutics of Aristotle and Hermeneutics of Sophists in Terms of Dialogue Philosophy. Part 1
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020 The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved
Ilya Dvorkin
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On Gorgias’ Particular Demonstration
Peitho, 2013 The label idios apodeixis/logos «particular (personal, original) demonstration or argument» of Gorgias is known to us only from the third section of the little work attributed to Aristotle under the title De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia.
Marian Wesoły
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Laura Hassan. Ash‘arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2023 Laura Hassan. Ash‘arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press LLC, 2020. xi+317 pages. ISBN: 9781463207199.
Osman Demir
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Following Sextus: Demonstrative Argument in Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos
Peitho, 2018 The two extant versions of Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos (PTMO) have been preserved by an anonymous author (MXG) and by Sextus Empiricus (S.E.). Both versions have been differently interpreted by scholars who examine either the doctrine or the rhetorical ...
Stefania Giombini
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