The Greek Sophists

Author : John Dillon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913360

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By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of rhetoric and the importance of transforming effective reasoning into persuasive public speaking. Their enquiries - into the status of women, slavery, the distinction between Greeks and barbarians, the existence of the gods, the origins of religion, and whether virtue can be taught - laid the groundwork for the insights of the next generation of thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle.

Author : G. W. Bowersock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 1280763663

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Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire by G. W. Bowersock Pdf

Author : Patricia F. O'Grady
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131664034

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The Sophists by Patricia F. O'Grady Pdf

The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. Plato criticised the Sophists for promoting dangerous ideas which threatened the traditional structure of society. Were they versatile and multi-talented? This book offers a treatment of the subject by twenty leading scholars in the field.

Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521096669

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A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists by William Keith Chambers Guthrie Pdf

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 : Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033592267

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Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire by Glen Warren Bowersock Pdf

Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire

Author : Håkan Tell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sophists (Greek philosophy).
ISBN : 0674055918

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Plato's Counterfeit Sophists by Håkan Tell Pdf

Plato's Counterfeit Sophists explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intellectual traditions. This book seeks to offer a revised history of the development of Greek philosophy, as well as of the potential--yet never realized--courses it might have followed.

Author : G. B. Kerferd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521283574

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The Sophistic Movement by G. B. Kerferd Pdf

This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.

Author : John J. Winkler,Gordon Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521239479

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Later Greek Literature by John J. Winkler,Gordon Williams Pdf

A body of Greek literature collected in an attempt to draw attention to often underrated literary excellence.

Author : Scott Porter Consigny
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1570034249

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Gorgias, Sophist and Artist by Scott Porter Consigny Pdf

Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Gagarin,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521437687

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Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists by Michael Gagarin,Paul Woodruff Pdf

Including the works of more than thirty authors, this edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes the origin of human society and law; the nature of justice and good government; the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Author : Edward Schiappa
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611171815

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Protagoras and Logos by Edward Schiappa Pdf

Protagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of the Older Sophists, Protagoras of Abdera. Most accounts of Protagoras rely on the somewhat hostile reports of Plato and Aristotle. By focusing on Protagoras's own surviving words, this study corrects many long-standing misinterpretations and presents significant facts: Protagoras was a first-rate philosophical thinker who positively influenced the theories of Plato and Aristotle, and Protagoras pioneered the study of language and was the first theorist of rhetoric. In addition to illustrating valuable methods of translating and reading fifth-century B.C.E. Greek passages, the book marshals evidence for the important philological conclusion that the Greek word translated as rhetoric was a coinage by Plato in the early fourth century. In this second edition, Edward Schiappa reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contributions of Protagoras. Schiappa argues that traditional accounts of Protagoras are hampered by mistaken assumptions about the Sophists and the teaching of the art of rhetoric in the fifth century. He shows that, contrary to tradition, the so-called Older Sophists investigated and taught the skills of logos, which is closer to modern conceptions of critical reasoning than of persuasive oratory. Schiappa also offers interpretations for each of Protagoras's major surviving fragments and examines Protagoras's contributions to the theory and practice of Greek education, politics, and philosophy. In a new afterword Schiappa addresses historiographical issues that have occupied scholars in rhetorical studies over the past ten years, and throughout the study he provides references to scholarship from the last decade that has refined his views on Protagoras and other Sophists.

Author : Gerald Sandy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004330320

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The Greek World of Apuleius by Gerald Sandy Pdf

The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.

Author : David D. Corey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438456171

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The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues by David D. Corey Pdf

Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato’s dialogues. Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato’s dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there exist important affinities between Socrates and the sophists he engages in conversation. Both focused squarely on aret? (virtue or excellence). Both employed rhetorical techniques of refutation, revisionary myth construction, esotericism, and irony. Both engaged in similar ways of minimizing the potential friction that sometimes arises between intellectuals and the city. Perhaps the most important affinity between Socrates and the sophists, David D. Corey argues, was their mutual recognition of a basic epistemological insight—that appearances (phainomena) both physical and intellectual were vexingly unstable. Such things as justice, beauty, piety, and nobility are susceptible to radical change depending upon the angle from which they are viewed. Socrates uses the sophists and sometimes plays the role of sophist himself in order to awaken interlocutors and readers from their dogmatic slumber. This in turn generates wonder (thaumas), which, according to Socrates, is nothing other than the beginning of philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781585105052

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Socrates and the Sophists by Plato Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Sophists (Greek philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:610496608

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