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The Sophistic Esprit Français: Sophistry and Elite French Humanistic Education
HumanitiesThis essay examines the role of sophistic practices in elite French humanistic education, specifically “omniloquacity”, the ability to speak about any given subject.
Jonathan Doering
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Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 2, Page 330-344, June 2026.ABSTRACT “Creative discretion”—defined as street‐level bureaucrats' use of their discretion to generate novel and useful ideas for customizing services to meet the needs of service users, superiors, and themselves—is vital as governments shift from traditional public management to a more user‐centered approach, emphasizing responsiveness over ...
Liesbeth Faas +3 more
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The Sophists and The federalist : re-examining the classical roots of American political theory
, 1995 The field of rhetoric has recently begun to position the Sophists as an integral part of the history of the discipline. Sophistic influence has been acknowledged in other fields as well, particularly philosophy and literary theory; however, Sophistic ...
Buchanan, Angela S.
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Eunapius, Lives of Philosophers and Sophists
, 2023 Two sophists on the history of sophistry. Flavius Philostratus, known as “the Elder” or “the Athenian,” was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third.
Baltussen, J.N.
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, 2008 This paper offers a reflection on the relevance of Nietzsche to recent geographical scholarship. It interrogates what we might mean by theoretically sophisticated geographies. Drawing on a specific context – the postcolonial apology in contemporary Australia – the paper turns to the relevance of Nietzsche’s thinking about morality in charting everyday ...
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Rush Rhees on Set Theory, the Sophists and Wittgenstein
, 2022 Rush Rhees, one of Wittgenstein’s three trustees, lectured on Plato and the Presocratics for two decades. In his lecture notes on the Sophists, Rhees briefly mentions Wittgenstein’s views on set theory and claims that mathematicians have responded to ...
Solin, Kim,
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S6-S24, April 2026.Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON +2 more
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The Sophists on the Correctness of Language [PDF]
, 2014 Niniejszy artykuł poświęcono tematowi odnoszącemu się do powstania i rozwoju myśli językoznawczej w starożytnej Grecji. Szczegółowej analizie poddane zostały studia nad poprawnością wyrażeń językowych prowadzone przez trzech głównych przedstawicieli ...
Tomaka, Kamila
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Sophists and Sophistry in the Wealth of Nations
, 2011 The Stoic is often seen as the forerunner of Adam Smith's market man of morals, but others have suggested that the sophist played a role in the formation of market morality and political economy.
David Charles Gore
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