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Socrates and the Sophists: Reconsidering the History of Criticisms of the Sophists

Humanities, 2022
To examine the sophists and their legacy, it is necessary to reconsider the relation between Socrates and the sophists. The trial of Socrates in 399 BCE seems to have changed people’s attitudes towards and conceptions of the sophists drastically, because
Noburu Notomi
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The Cosmopolitanism of the Early Sophists: The Case of Hippias and Antiphon

Humanities, 2023
An investigation of the emergence of the notion of ‘Cosmopolitanism’ in 5th century Greece. The author focusses on the early sophists, and specifically on Antiphon and Hippias.
Giovanni Giorgini
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Thus Spoke… Friedrich Nietzsche on the Sophists

Humanities
Friedrich Nietzsche can be an awkward topic for classicists and ancient philosophers, especially since an important part of his heavily critical philosophy begins as a reaction to, and critique of, his contemporary classical scholarship with which he was
Laura Viidebaum
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Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists

Humanities
To diagnose someone’s reasoning today as “sophistry” is to say that this reasoning is at once persuasive (at least to a significant degree) and logically invalid.
Micah Clark, Selmer Bringsjord, Bringsjord Selmer   +2 more
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NIEKO NĖRA, ARBA BŪTIES PROBLEMA SOFISTŲ MĄSTYME

Problemos, 2003
Straipsnyje nagrinėjami dviejų iškiliausių sofistų - Gorgijo ir Protagoro - mąstymo atgarsiai graikų filosofijoje. Tariama, kad sofistų judėjimas savo siekiais ir prielaidomis yra naujas ir santykinai autonomiškas reiškinys graikų kosme, o dėl to jį ...
Skirmantas Jankauskas
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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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Hermeneutics of Aristotle and Hermeneutics of Sophists in Terms of Dialogue Philosophy. Part II. From Sophists to Modernity

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021
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
Ilya Dvorkin
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Alētheia in Gorgias of Leontini. An Excerpt from the History of Truth

Peitho, 2022
It is often assumed that the concept of alētheia, or ‘truth’, in Gorgias of Leontini belongs to the art of rhetoric. Along these lines, it is usually understood as an aesthetic concept or even a mere ‘adornment’ of speech.
Lars Leteen
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Examination of Aristotle’s Critiques of Heraclitus’ Cosmology on Criticisms of Plato and Sophists [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2014
Aristotle is one of the important sources for studying pre-Platonic philosophers, among whom Heraclitus was the subject of Aristotle’s main focus. His focus on Heraclitus was most importantly for the reason that Heraclitus was, as Plato states, the ...
Saeed Darvishy, Gholamreza Zakiany
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Antilogies in Ancient Athens: An Inventory and Appraisal

Humanities, 2023
Antilogies, or pairs of symmetrically opposed speeches or arguments, were generally ignored by Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, and Diogenes Laertius, and, later, by Eduard Norden, Hermann Diels, and most modern scholars of antiquity.
Livio Rossetti
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