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Poetry and Philosophy in the Sophists.

Araucaria, 2020
This paper examines the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the sophists, asking what role earlier traditions of poetry and song played in their work. The sophists’ influence on various genres of literature and philosophy is widely acknowledged, but, as this paper shows, the influence of earlier traditions of poetry and myth on their work was
openaire   +4 more sources

The lives and opinions of Socrates and Stilpo as defended by Plutarch against the insidious yet ignorant attacks of Colotes

Aitia, 2013
In chapters 17 to 23 of the Adversus Colotem Plutarch defends Socrates and Stilpo against Colotes’ criticism. I examine the embedding of this section in the larger context of the work, the links between the sections on Socrates ...
Jan Opsomer
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The Sophistic Effect [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2014
Peter Carravetta, The Elusive Hermes: Method Discourse Interpreting, Aurora, Colorado: The Davies Group Publishers, 2012, 504 p.
Eduardo Mendieta
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The Unity of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics: Book \u395 according to the Interpretation of the Ancient Commentators [PDF]

, 2018
This paper discusses the three ancient commentaries on Book E of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics, that have been handed down to us. It aims to demonstrate the fundamental part played by their particular interpretation of Aristotle\u2019s doctrines in the ...
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Protagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard, Saeed Bina-ye-Motlagh, Reza Koorang Beheshti, Amir Ehsan Karbasizadeh   +3 more
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Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles [PDF]

, 2020
how does one inquire into the truth of first principles? Where does one begin when deciding where to begin? Aristotle recognizes a series of difficulties when it comes to understanding the starting points of a scientific or philosophical system, and ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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Socratic Elenchus in the Sophist

APEIRON: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, 2018
This paper demonstrates the central role of the Socratic elenchus in the Sophist. In the first part, I defend the position that the Stranger describes the Socratic elenchus in the sixth division of the Sophist.
Nicolas Zaks
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is Critias a Sophist?

Humanities
The coherence and indeed the reality of the sophists as a philosophical school or movement has been contested and debated in modern scholarship, with inconclusive results.
Eric MacPhail
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Philosophical Basis of the method of antilogic [PDF]

, 2019
The paper is devoted to the sophistic method of "two-fold arguments" (antilogic). The traditional understanding of antilogic understood as an expression of agonistic and eristic tendencies of the sophists has been in recent decades, under the influence ...
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source