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Sophistry and Law: The Antilogical Pattern of Judicial Debate [PDF]
Humanities, 2022 This essay aims to reveal the relationship between sophistry and law in a twofold direction: on one side, how the development of ancient Greek law influenced sophistry’s production, and on the other, how and to what extent the knowledge and skills ...
Stefania Giombini
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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 Fundamental Metaphor of Sophistry
Educação & Realidade, 2022 This paper analyzes the metaphor as a discursive strategy to explain and disseminate the concepts that support doctrines in general and educational doctrines in particular.
Tatiane Silva, Marcus Vinicius Cunha
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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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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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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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