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Medicine, Rhetoric, and Natural Philosophy in On Breaths

The Korean Association for Philosophy of Medicine, 2022
On breaths is an interesting work in that it adopts not only natural philosophical approach but also a form of rhetorical speech even though it is a medical treatise.
Kee-Baek Rhee
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Plato’s Enquiry concerning the Sophist as a Way towards ‘Defining’ Philosophy

2013
Josep Monserrat Molas, Pablo Sandoval Villarroel   +1 more
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In Clouds (Nubes) of Aristophanes, Socrates appears as a sophist school owner, the Phrontisterion (‘thinkery’), in which he hosts students of all ages, in order to teach them not only philosophy, literature, physics but also effective sophistic techniques

Dramaturgias, 2018
In Clouds (Nubes) of Aristophanes, Socrates appears as a sophist school owner, the Phrontisterion (‘thinkery’), in which he hosts students of all ages, in order to teach them not only philosophy, literature, physics but also effective sophistic ...
C. Kechagias, G.Papaioannou, A.Antoniou
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DIAIRESIS AND KOINŌNIA IN SOPHIST 253D1–E3

History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2020
Here I interpret a central passage in Plato’s Sophist by focusing on understudied elements that provide insight into the fit of the dialogue’s parts and of the Sophist–Statesman diptych as a whole.
Colin C. Smith
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Plato on the Goodness of Difference: The Convertibility of the Transcendentals in the Sophist

Journal of Speculative Philosophy
:This article argues that Plato’s Sophist can be understood as promoting a rudimentary version of the medieval notion of the “convertibility of the transcendentals,” that is, that there are certain properties of being, such as unity and truth, that have ...
Ryan M. Brown
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Herdsmen and Stargazers: the Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman

, 2020
Together with the Sophist, Plato’s Statesman is often taken to introduce and develop a new scientific form of theoretical inquiry, represented by the Eleatic visitor. This paper draws on recent scholarship on the Sophist and evaluates the reliability of
O. Pettersson
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2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time

Jacques the Sophist, 2019
Cassin distinguishes between the way Freud read the Greeks, reinterpreting their great myths in allegorical fashion, and Lacan’s more nuanced attention to the philosophical arguments, notably of the Sophists and Presocratics, and their understanding of ...
B. Cassin
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in

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Argumentation and Reflection in Plato’s Gigantomachia (Sophist 245e6–249d5)

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2018
This paper argues that Plato’s gigantomachia is simultaneously concerned with first-order arguments about metaphysics and epistemology and with second-order arguments that reflect on the impact of ethical components, argumentative strategies and ...
Danielle Vazquez
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Jacques the Sophist

, 2019
“The psychoanalyst is a sign of the presence of the sophist in our time, but with a different status.” The surprising confluence of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the texts of the Ancient Greek sophists in Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and ...
Barbara Cassin, M. Syrotinski
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