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An unexplained overlap between Sophist 232b1-236d4 and Republic X
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2020 Although most scholars agree that the lexicon of Sophist 232b1-236d4 is similar to that of Republic X, they leave undetermined whether they are theoretically compatible.
Nicholas Zucchetti
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Socrates and the Sophists: Reconsidering the History of Criticisms of the Sophists
Humanities, 2022 To examine the sophists and their legacy, it is necessary to reconsider the relation between Socrates and the sophists. The trial of Socrates in 399 BCE seems to have changed people’s attitudes towards and conceptions of the sophists drastically, because
Noburu Notomi
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More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis [PDF]
, 2019 Plato’s Parmenides and Lysis have a surprising amount in common from a methodological standpoint. Both systematically employ a method that I call ‘exploring both sides’, a philosophical method for encouraging further inquiry and comprehensively ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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The reality of the not-true in Plato's Sophist
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2023 The definition of the sophist as "image-maker" allows Plato to add to the novelties he presents in the Sophist two topics he hadn't deepened in his previous dialogues: (a) a "definition" of being (247e) and (b) the influence this position will have on ...
Néstor Luis Cordero
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Dialectic of eros and myth of the soul in Plato's Phaedrus [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, I question a widespread reading of a passage in the last part of the Phaedrus dealing with the science of dialectic. According to this reading, the passage announces a new method peculiar to the later Plato aiming at defining natural kinds.
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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A Footnote on Alain Badiou’s Critique of Plato’s "Sophist"
Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2022 In his second book on being and event, Logics of Worlds, Alain Badiou describes Plato’s late dialogue, The Sophist as “one of the first transcendental inquiries in the history of thought”.
Keylor Murillo
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Pico della Mirandola and the Presocratics [PDF]
, 2018 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) decided to study all the ancient and medieval schools of philosophy, including the Pre-Socratics, in order to broaden his scope. Pico showed interest in ancient monists.
Steiris, Georgios
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Études Platoniciennes, 2020 The contrast between the two compliance devices that are violence and persuasion, is pivotal in Plato’s work and well acknowledged among scholars. Yet, the dichotomy of words and deeds too easily equates two forms of speech, which this paper intends to ...
Lou Clemens
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Parts, Forms, and Participation in the Parmenides and Sophist: A Comparison
Études Platoniciennes, 2019 This paper addresses the vexed question of the outcome of the second horn of the dilemma of participation in Plato’s Parmenides bringing in Sophist 257c7-d5 where the Eleatic Stranger accepts what he seems to reject in the Parmenides, namely that a Form ...
Pauline Sabrier
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Epistemological vs. Ontological Relationalism in Quantum Mechanics: Relativism or Realism? [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper we investigate the history of relationalism and its present use in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the first part of this article we will provide a conceptual analysis of the relation between substantivalism, relationalism and
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