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Sententiae, 2022 The purpose of this article is to give a critical assessment of the methodological, epistemological and philosophical principles of the “rhetorical turn” as a historico-philosophical phenomenon in contemporary philosophy.
Sergii Secundant
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Kant Versus Descartes: The Paralogism of Substantiality
Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2023 When Descartes doubted the existence of everything sensible, he expressed the indisputability of his own existence as “I think, therefore I am.” He then questioned what he is and deduced that he is a thinking substance, namely a soul or mind.
Fatih Özgökman
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The Common Origins of Philosophical and Political Power in Plato's Gorgias
Plato, 2021 Plato’s Gorgias concerns the tension between political and philosophical power. In it, Socrates and Gorgias discuss rhetoric’s power, which Gorgias claims is universal, containing all powers, enabling the rhetorician to rule over others politically ...
Lydia Winn
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Socrates’ kατάβασις and the Sophistic Shades: Education and Democracy
Plato, 2023 This article addresses the unusually elaborate dramatic context in Plato’s Protagoras and effect of sophistry on democratic Athens. Because Socrates evokes Odysseus’ κατάβασις in the Odyssey to describe the sophists in Callias’ house (314c-316b), I ...
Christine Rojcewicz
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CONCERNING THE PRE-SOCRATIC DOCTRINES IN RHETORIC
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023 Background. Mastering the rhetorical art as a philological discipline must be based on scientific understanding of the subject of speech influence. The latter is only possible if one masters not only the knowledge of the current state of the discipline ...
Lev G. Vasiliev, Nataliia V. Melnichuk
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1914 Revisited: Evidence vs. Sophistry [PDF]
Токови историје, 2023 The response by Danilo Šarenac to a critical review of his own and two of his colleagues’ reflections on the 1914 Sarajevo assassination is subjected to close analysis of the specific details emphasized in that response.
John Zametica
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Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics
Humanities, 2023 This essay provides an introduction to the question of the contribution of the ancient sophists to aesthetics in Western art. It commences by examining the persistent analogies to visual arts in negative and positive discussions of sophistry, both ...
Clare Lapraik Guest
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On Galen's medical rhetoric [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2023 In ancient Greece, medicine was closely linked to rhetoric as it needed the tools to persuade the audience and logically justify the methods of treatment.
Irina PROLYGINA
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What Performative Contradiction Reveals: Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias on Sophistry
Humanities, 2023 Socrates’ use of performative contradiction against sophistic theories is a recurrent motif in Plato’s dialogues. In the case of Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias, Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras’ homo mensura doctrine and Gorgias’ doctrine of the
Robert Metcalf
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One of the empirical analysis about sophistry of politician's statments
Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2016 A referendum in a manner of direct democracy has been occasionally adopted in Japan for a political decision. However, it may not always maximize public interest, and it may thus lead failure.
Shintaro Yamada +2 more
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