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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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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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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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, 2016 Plato's dialogues use several terms for the concept of well-being, which concept plays a central ethical role as the ultimate goal for action and a central political role as the proper aim for states. But the dialogues also reveal sharp debate about what
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Critical review of sophistic models of persuasion regarding their significance and influence on modern political rhetoric [PDF]
Srpska Politička MisaoSophists were professional teachers of primarily rhetoric who imparted their knowledge to young men in the Greek world. They were active in the fifth century BC, and their influence, above all on rhetoric, was enormous both on later centuries and ...
Stošić Sanja, Vasilić Veronika
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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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Gorgias and Plato's Gorgias [PDF]
Revista Archai, 2011 O texto acha-se dividido em tres partes. A primeira ensaia uma brevissima sintese sobre a obra de Gorgias, chamando atencao para a influencia que o sofista exerce tanto sobre a Retorica, como disciplina, quanto sobre a filosofia platonica. A segunda e terceira partes concentram-se na analise, ensaiada de perspectivas divergentes, do elenchos a que e ...
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