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The Use and Meaning of the Past in Plato
This essay is based on two premises. The first concerns the vision of writing proposed by Plato in Phaedrus and especially the conception of philosophical writing as a maieutic game. The structurally polyvalent way in which Plato approaches philosophical
Maurizio Migliori
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This paper provides an introductory survey of the evidence for Porphyry’s writings on rhetoric and a discussion of their context and influence, together with a detailed commentary on the testimonia and fragments.
Heath, M.
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The Eleatic Stranger in Sophist dialogue
Within the framework of the discussion about the existence of a spokesman in the Platonic dialogues, we look, in the first part, into the possible transfer of this spokesman’s function from Socrates to the Eleatic Stranger, identifying the contact and ...
Lucas Alvarez
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Argumento, silencio y acción en la distinción de filósofo y sofista.
A detailed analysis of the dialogue Sophist shows that the distinction between philosopher and sophist sketched there by Plato is possible by tracing a distinction between dialogue and argument, in which the difference between the recourse to appeararice
Antonio Marino López
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Plato’s Parmenides in Plato’s Sophist
I wish to argue in this article that Plato, in considering the position of the monists in the Sophist, relies heavily upon arguments carried forward from the Parmenides.
David Horan
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Thought, Memory, and Being in Plato’s Sophist
Thinking as described in Plato’s Sophist undergoes two basic changes: it progresses by shifting from one to many and it regresses by shifting from many to one. The change from one to many is generative; the change from many to one is reductive.
Anthony Pasqualoni
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Théomnestos au tribunal ou l’injure comme arme du citoyen
An historical recontextualisation seems to be necessary to understand what is at stake in Theomnestos 384-383 trial. The plaintiff, Lysias’client, blames Theomnestos for having claimed, in a previous trial, that he had killed his own father.
Francis Larran
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Sophisticated Geographies [PDF]
This paper offers a reflection on the relevance of Nietzsche to recent geographical scholarship. It interrogates what we might mean by theoretically sophisticated geographies. Drawing on a specific context – the postcolonial apology in contemporary Australia – the paper turns to the relevance of Nietzsche’s thinking about morality in charting everyday ...
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Peter Carravetta, The Elusive Hermes: Method Discourse Interpreting, Aurora, Colorado: The Davies Group Publishers, 2012, 504 p.
Eduardo Mendieta
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It is amusing to see a review that complains of a lack of sophistication in the treatment of data or development of a theory in a paper submitted for publication. “Sophistication” apparently is something good; something that enhances the value of a paper. These kinds of reviews usually come from recent Ph.D.s, often from Cambridge or La Jolla.
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