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The sophists: the philosophy as therap

open access: yes, 2016
El artículo recorre los pasos de Grecia clásica por la mitología, los presocráticos, la tragedia y los sofistas hacia la distinción de leyes naturales y leyes sociales; distinción que permitió criticar al statu quo justificado en un orden natural.
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Hermeneutics of Aristotle and Hermeneutics of Sophists in Terms of Dialogue Philosophy. Part 1

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020
The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved fragments of Protagoras and Gorgias shows that the doctrine of sophists was a kind of holistic ...
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Balaam as the Sophist Par Excellence in Philo of Alexandria:Philo's Projection of an Urgent Contemporary Debate onto Moses' Pentateuchal Narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
George H. van Kooten, “Balaam as the Sophist Par Excellence in Philo of Alexandria: Philo’s Projection of an Urgent Contemporary Debate onto Moses’ Pentateuchal Narratives,” in The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and ...
van Kooten, G.H.
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Dialectic Crossroads: Elenchos, Antieristical Devices and Megaric Philosophy in the Sophistical Refutations

open access: yesRevista Archai, 2015
Les réfutations sophistiques ont généralement été prises comme une tentative de classer les sophismes. Cette approche, cependant, risque d'obscurcir l'étendue de sa propre confrontation à toutes fins. Cet article vise à souligner l'importance des réfutations sophistiques dans le cadre d'un programme anti-éristique contre la philosophie mégarienne, qui ...
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Immorality or Immortality? An Argument for Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the 5th century a number of sophists challenged the orthodox understanding of morality and claimed that practicing injustice was the best and most profitable way for an individual to live.
Anderson, Merrick
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The soul of sophistry: Plato’s “Sophist” 226a9–231b9 revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Does Plato Make Room for Negative Forms in His Ontology? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Plato seems to countenance both positive and negative Forms, that is to say, both good and bad ones. He may not say so outright, but he invokes both and rejects neither.
Alican, Necip Fikri
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Justin Martyr – between Philosophy and the Second Sophistic

open access: yesLiteratūra
Only relatively recently have researchers begun to speak more loudly about how studies on the Second Sophistic overlook Christian (and Jewish) literature. On the other hand, studies on early Christianity in turn view the Second Sophistic as an exclusively rhetorical movement. The aim of the article’s author is to look at Justin, a Christian philosopher,
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FROM ARISTOTELIANISM TO EXISTENTIALISM: THE PROBLEM OF BEING [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Being has been the central and dominating concept of twenty-five hundred years of Western philosophy. Ontology is the branch of metaphysics that concerns itself with the nature of being.
Sfekas, Stanley
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