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In Plato’s dialogue the Sophist, the subject of the image holds a central place. In fact, the sophist can be captured by the interlocutors in so far as this sophist – he him self a skilled image maker – is caught in one of the kinds of images.
Alfonso Flórez
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The soul of sophistry: Plato’s “Sophist” 226a9–231b9 revisited [PDF]
This paper argues that the so-called 6th definition of the sophist found in the outer part of Plato's "Sophist" is a methodological passage meant to point out how the sophist is to be pursued properly if he is to be distinguished from the ...
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON +2 more
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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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Monarchy and mass communication: Antioch A.D. 362/3 revisited [PDF]
The A.D. 362/3 crisis in Antioch is usually interpreted as an economic or ideological crisis, and Julian's Misopogon as a 'festive satire' or 'edict of chastisement'.
Van Hoof, Lieve, Van Nuffelen, Peter
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ABSTRACT Although sphingolipids are key players in lipotoxicity and metabolic diseases, their response to bariatric surgery and their relation to metabolic improvement remain unclear. This pilot study investigated plasma sphingolipid remodeling after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and its associations with clinical and biochemical markers of ...
Gabriela de Oliveira Lemos +3 more
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Rethinking Plato’s Forms [PDF]
This is a proposal for rethinking the main lines of Plato’s philosophy, including some of the conceptual tools he uses for building and maintaining it.
Alican, Necip Fikri, Thesleff, Holger
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Coordination and Sophistication
Abstract How coordination can be achieved in isolated, one-shot interactions without communication and in the absence of focal points is a long-standing question in game theory. We show that a cost–benefit approach to reasoning in strategic settings delivers sharp theoretical predictions that address this central question.
Alaoui, Larbi +2 more
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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