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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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Sophistry, Rhetoric and Politics
Filosofija. Sociologija, 2022 The article aims to shed light on the connection between rhetoric and politics, and its dissemination in the sophistic and philosophical tradition. The argumentation is based on the conceptions of two contemporary philosophers – Barbara Cassin and Hans Blumenberg, who appear as the protagonists of positions according to which rhetoric takes up a ...
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A sofística no discurso educacional de Agostinho de Hipona
Cadernos CIMEAC, 2018 O trabalho visa discutir as relações entre o discurso educacional de Agostinho de Hipona e as concepções de pensadores posteriores a ele, examinando as obras O mestre, publicada poucos depois de sua conversão ao catolicismo, e A instrução dos catecúmenos,
Aglaia Ruffino Jalles +1 more
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Rhétorique et psychologie dans l'œuvre d'Alcidamas d'Élée
Methodos, 2019 This paper argues that Alcidamas should be seen as a thinker of the ψυχή instead of the mere psychagogical potential of the λόγος. The development of an interesting and complex reflection on the logical and syntactic organization of the speech on one ...
Julie Tramonte
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The Metaphysics of Sophistry: Protagoras, Nāgārjuna, Antilogos
Humanities, 2022 There is no category of thought more deliberately or explicitly relegated to a subordinate role in Plato’s dialogues than Sophists and sophistry. It is due to Plato’s influence that terms “sophist” and “sophistry” handed down to us have unilaterally ...
Robin Reames
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The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist [PDF]
, 2018 At 252e1 to 253c9 in Plato’s Sophist, the Eleatic Visitor explains why philosophy is a science. Like the art of grammar, philosophical knowledge corresponds to a generic structure of discrete kinds and is acquired by systematic analysis of how these ...
Olof, Pettersson
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Filozofija i Društvo, 2009 The teachability of virtue is an issue on which were crossed swords during the struggle for supremacy between two basic principles of ancient Greek spirit - sophistry and ancient Greek ethics. Two great representatives of these opposite principles, Plato
Nikitović Aleksandar
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Epistemological vs. Ontological Relationalism in Quantum Mechanics: Relativism or Realism? [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper we investigate the history of relationalism and its present use in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In the first part of this article we will provide a conceptual analysis of the relation between substantivalism, relationalism and
de Ronde, Christian +1 more
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