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Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 209-221, April 2026.Abstract In Plato's Republic, Socrates' account of an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy closely concerns the failure of poets to defend justice as good in itself and not merely for its external benefits. No less an exemplum of poetry than Shakespeare's Macbeth does just that.
Mark J. Boone
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Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics
Humanities, 2023 This essay provides an introduction to the question of the contribution of the ancient sophists to aesthetics in Western art. It commences by examining the persistent analogies to visual arts in negative and positive discussions of sophistry, both ...
Clare Lapraik Guest
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Gorgias/Gorgias: The Sicilian Orator and the Platonic Dialogue
, 2022 Gorgias of Leontinoi in Sicily is widely considered to be the most prominent and important of the sophists. He traveled to Athens in 427 BCE—about the time Plato was born—where he earned both the ire of philosophers and the obols of young men keen on ...
Zoller, Coleen P., Montgomery Ewegen, S.
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Polymatheia, 2021 Górgias traz, em A Defesa de Palamedes, inquietações que permeiam o pensamento humano desde a antiguidade, a exemplo da honra. O sofista defende que uma pessoa sábia, que se dedica à prática de coisas boas, não deveria passar por certas situações em ...
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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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Trilemmas: Gorgias’ PTMO Between Zeno and Melissus
Peitho, 2017 The present paper makes the following points. (1) The summary given in Sextus Emp. Math. VII is of much greater value than usually acknowledged, since it preserves several key elements of Gorgias’ communicational strategy.
Livio Rossetti
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
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El problema del aiskhos en Gorgias
, 2016 RESUMENLa introducción que Platón hace en Gorgias de cada nuevo interlocutor se interpreta, por quien sustituye al anterior, como una rendición por aiskhos (vergüenza) frente a Sócrates.
Sánchez Tarifa, José Antonio
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Some attitudes we usually do not have
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 300-324, July 2025.Abstract I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \psi \urcorner$ are about very different subject‐matters, we can assure ourselves that the strangeness is merely pragmatic because of the alethic ...
Daniel Drucker
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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