Philosophy History Sophistry
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Author | : Robert C. Bartlett |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022639428X |
Download Sophistry and Political Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
It was Nietzsche who first identified the similarities between the radical sophistry of antiquity and the contemporary relativism that has come to characterize modern thought. The anti-foundationalism of contemporary thought can be said to have been born with the Sophists, and, of all the Sophists who have come down to us, Protagoras is the most famous and challenging of them. Robert Bartlett s masterful book is the first to examine Plato s Protagoras and Theaetetus together to uncover what lies at the heart of Protagoras teaching, both its moral and political components and its theoretical and epistemological groundings. His superb exegesis of these two dialogues allows one to see more clearly the power of radical relativism: its strengths and its deficiencies. Bartlett notes that political philosophy has been supplanted in the modern era either by the study of the history of political philosophy or by relativism. Although "Understanding Political Philosophy and Sophistry" can certainly be taken as an example of the former, it is much more than that. It seeks to uncover what Socrates, in responding to that teaching, begins to reveal of his own understanding and characteristic activity. It helps us begin to understand, in other words, the phenomenon of philosophy, not just as a system of thought, but as Socrates lived it."
Author | : Dennis Rohatyn |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2022-04-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004495916 |
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Post-modernism believes in nothing, not even unbelief. Hence it is a genial version of nihilism, and the flip side of despair. Like skepticism (from which it descends), it is healthy insofar as it rejects all dogmas; but unhealthy insofar as it substitutes its own, while eating its own essence. This book diagnoses this disease, and offers irony as its cure. What failure of nerve did to Hellenism, strength of character must do for the decline of the best. Humor, laughter, and detachment are the gifts of historical art, and of Socratic science. As we take refuge in the myth of truth, we must realize that there is no truth in myth, and no comfort in illusion, except the lie of immortality.
Author | : Olof Pettersson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319455850 |
Download Plato’s Protagoras Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the strategies that this involved. They explore Plato’s dialogue, looking at questions of how philosophy and sophistry relate, both on a methodological and on a thematic level. While many of the contributing authors argue for a sharp distinction between sophistry and philosophy, this is contested by others. Readers may consider the distinctions between philosophy and traditional forms of poetry and sophistry through these papers. Questions for readers' attention include: To what extent is Socrates’ preferred mode of discourse, and his short questions and answers, superior to Protagoras’ method of sophistic teaching? And why does Plato make Socrates and Protagoras reverse positions as it comes to virtue and its teachability? This book will appeal to graduates and researchers with an interest in the origins of philosophy, classical philosophy and historical philosophy.
Author | : Marina McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780511366703 |
Download Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1585105058 |
Download Socrates and the Sophists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521096669 |
Download A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.
Author | : Richard Marback |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781570032400 |
Download Plato's Dream of Sophistry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Plato's Dream of Sophistry, Richard Marback shows that Plato's vision was remarkably accurate. Against histories of rhetoric that described Plato's influence mainly in terms of his overarching dominance, Marback argues that Plato's lasting influence results not from the force of the dialogues themselves but from continued investments in arguing about the dialogues.
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Sophists (Greek philosophy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeroen Lauwers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004301534 |
Download Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Sophistry in the High Roman Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How is it possible that modern scholars have labelled Maximus of Tyre, a second-century CE performer of philosophical orations, as a sophist or a ‘half-philosopher’, while his own self-presentation is that of a genuine philosopher? If we take Maximus’ claim to philosophical authority seriously, his case can deepen our understanding of the dynamic nature of Imperial philosophy. Through a discursive analysis of twelve Imperial intellectuals alongside Maximus’ dialexeis, the author proposes an interpretative framework to assess the purpose behind the representation of philosophy, rhetoric, and sophistry in Maximus’ oeuvre. This is thus as yet the first book-length attempt at situating the historical communication process implicit in the surviving Maximean texts in the concurrent context of the Imperial intellectual world.
Author | : Peter A. Redpath |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042002050 |
Download Wisdom's Odyssey Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
ISBN 9042001801 (paperback) NLG 35.00 This book is a daring reappraisal of the history of Western philosophy through the Renaissance. It challenges the generally received view that what is called modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes, is philosophy. is that the genuine philosophic tradition Togasaki).