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The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist [PDF]

Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2018
At 252e1 to 253c9 in Plato’s Sophist, the Eleatic Visitor explains why philosophy is a science. Like the art of grammar, philosophical knowledge corresponds to a generic structure of discrete kinds and is acquired by systematic analysis of how these ...
Olof, Pettersson
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The Use and Meaning of the Past in Plato

Plato, 2021
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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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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An Interpretation of the Deep Disagreement between Plato and Protagoras from the Perspective of Contemporary Meta-Ethics and Political Epistemology

Philosophies, 2023
Since the early 20th century, two new disciplines emerged in the tradition of analytic philosophy: meta-ethics and political epistemology. Nevertheless, debates on such questions go back to the ancient Greeks and, in particular, to the debates between ...
Manuel Knoll
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The Accident in Being

Media Theory, 2021
Michel Serres’s work traces a historical transition where technologies of mediation replace a framework of life formerly managed by an economics of production.
John W P Phillips
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‘Pushing Through’ in Plato’s Sophist: A New Reading of the Parity Assumption [PDF]

, 2020
At a crucial juncture in Plato’s Sophist, when the interlocutors have reached their deepest confusion about being and not-being, the Eleatic Visitor proclaims that there is yet hope.
Rodriguez, Evan
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Plato’s theory of language: its emergence and relations to the platonic Forms [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2017
The present article attempts to answer a crucial question: why does Plato attach such importance to “language”? In many dialogues, such as Theaetetus and Sophist he surveys this subject; and in Cratylus language plays a pivotal role. Moreover the article
Malihe Abouie Mehrizi
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In Pursuit of True Wisdom: How the Re-Emergence of Classical Wonder Should Replace Descartes’s Neo-Averrostic Sophistry

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
Modern mathematical physics often claims to make philosophy obsolete. This presentation aims to show that the modern concept of wisdom fundamentally diverges with the thinking of Descartes, that, strictly speaking, at least in his metaphysical first ...
Jason Nehez
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Self-appropriating Interpretation of Nicomachean Ethics as a Guide for Young Heidegger’s Phenomenological Hermeneutics [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2019
Aristotle is one of the philosophers who have influenced young Heidegger’s thoughts. The purpose of the present paper is to clarify certain aspects of this influence. During the years 1922–1926, Heidegger ponders deeply on Aristotle’s Philosophy.
Seyyed Jamal Same, Mohammad Javad Safian
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Religion as a Means of Political Conformity and Obedience: From Critias to Thomas Hobbes

Religions, 2023
This study identifies common perceptions between Thomas Hobbes’ approach to religion with that of Critias the sophist. Despite the distance that separates the social environments within which each of these authors lived and wrote, in their political ...
Michail Theodosiadis, Elias Vavouras
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