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‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic [PDF]

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2023
Cartlidge, Ben, Costantini, Leonardo
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The Limits of Philosophy: Plato\u27s Sophist and Statesman [PDF]

, 2005
Plato\u27s Sophist and Statesman articulate the limits or definition of philosophy. My selective interpretation begins with a problem from Sophist 259e-260a and 252e-253e: Is it possible to express correctly (in logos) the necessary conditions of logos ...
Brouwer, Mark
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S6-S24, April 2026.
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, VICTORIA M. BASHAM, OWEN D. THOMAS   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Image and Paradigm in Plato’s Sophist

, 2007
The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the imitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and ...
Ambuel, David
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A Tale Signifying Much: How Shakespeare's Macbeth Teaches the Lessons of Plato's Republic, and Why Poetry and Philosophy Are Natural Allies

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 209-221, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The sophist of many faces: Difference (and identity) in theaetetus and the sophist

, 2016
One can argue that the problem posed by difference/identity in contemporary philosophy has its roots in the persistent epistemological imperative to be certain about what we know. We find this demand in Plato\u27s Theaetetus and Sophist.
Malabed, Rizalino Noble
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Some Remarks on the Senses of Being in the Sophist

, 2011
In this paper I examine the question of the different senses of the verb "to be" and the notion of "being" in Plato's Sophist, discussing the relevant passages and ...
FRONTEROTTA, FRANCESCO
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Reconsidering Instrumentality, From Mechanical Causality to Overdetermination and Political Articulation

Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 194-201, June 2026.
Abdellatif Atif
wiley   +1 more source

The Coy Eristic: Defining the Image that Defines the Sophist

, 2011
The eponymous dialogue presents the sophist as a figure who defies definition, and those difficulties are attributed to the conception of the image. Ultimately, the sophist is defined as a species of image maker.
Ambuel, David
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Otticismo e cosmofania. Riflessioni e distorsioni a partire dal paradigma ottico nell’ipotesi ontologica di Nicola Russo [PDF]

Kaiak
Focus of this paper is the dialogue with the core of Nicola Russo’s philosophy, the “ontological hypothesis”.Some terms of this theory, such as “logos”, “on” – from the ancient Greek philosophy – define the behaviour of the human “perspective” – strictly
Annamaria Pacilio
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