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Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured

Book by Susan C. Jarratt; Southern Illinois University Press, 1991

Subjects:

Feminist Criticism, Rhetoric, Ancient, Sophists (Greek Philosophy)

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

THE FIRST SOPHISTS: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY B OTH THE written remains of the first sophists and the ancient commentary on them are minimal...neglect for centuries, the fifth-century sophists have been submitted, within the last two...
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

Book by Robin Waterfield; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Sophists (Greek Philosophy)

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...distortions have spoiled the record of the Sophists as well, due in this case not to Aristotle...by distinguishing him sharply from the Sophists, to the detriment of the latter, who...orators, poets, and, above all, the Sophists. Xenophon succinctly displays the typical...
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Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist

Book by David Ambuel; Parmenides, 2007

Subjects:

Plato--Sophist

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...evident. Often in Plato the sophists are taken to task for artlessness...experience was avowed by some sophists themselves is confirmed by...rehabilitate the standpoint of the sophists as against Plato while also...absence of the topic from the Sophist all the more noteworthy.
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Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theatatus and the Sophist of Plato

Book by Francis MacDonald Cornford, Plato; Liberal Arts Press, 1957

Subjects:

Knowledge, Theory Of, Plato

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...these purifiers of the soul Sophists? 230e. Stranger continues...shrink from 231. calling them Sophists. Theaet. Why so? Str. For...resemblance to that type the Sophist . Str. So has the dog to the...so i.e. let them pass for Sophists ; for should they ever set...
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The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire

Book by Graham Anderson; Routledge, 1993

Subjects:

Rome--Civilization--Greek Influences, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D, Sophists (Greek Philosophy)

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...As the most informative source on sophists, Philostratus none the less fails...second to none for the evocation of sophists in action, and for the conveying of their self-importance. 147 The sophists of the Early Empire are not entirely...

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On Plato's 'Sophist.'

Journal article by Seth Benardete; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 46, 1993

Subjects:

Philosophy, Ancient--Analysis, Plato--Philosophy, Sophist (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...the model for the sophist. This turnaround...diverge from the sophists at the division...versions of the sophists two ways, but in...duplicate exactly the sophist. For the Stranger...however, must the sophist be assumed to have...to nonbeing? The sophists claim is that he...
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Who's a Philosopher? Who's a Sophist? the Stranger V. Socrates

Journal article by Catherine H. Zuckert; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, 2000

Subjects:

Philosophers, Ancient--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Socrates--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sophists (Greek philosophy)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...a purifier a "sophist."(25) Observing...purifiers resemble sophists the way dogs do...distinguishes the sophist. Although no human...everything, the sophists ability to refute...Stranger looks like a sophist: "The sophists disguise...
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Why Anthropologists Should Study Rhetoric

Journal article by Michael Carrithers; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

German philosophy--Criticism and interpretation, German philosophy--Social aspects, Philosophy, German--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy, German--Social aspects, Rhetoric, Sophists, Sophists (Greek philosophy)

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...practically all of the things we have devised. Isokrates (1)
Sophist, and so comes down to us clouded by the reputation of the Sophists with their supposedly treacherous and twisting skill of persuasion, rhetoric. But...
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The Journal of the History of Philosophy: January 2012, Vol. 50, No. 1

Journal article; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 65, 2011

Subjects:

Antiphon the Sophist--Criticism and interpretation, Cognition--Analysis, Hutcheson, Francis--Criticism and interpretation, Malebranche, Nicolas--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy--Analysis, Rationalism--Analysis, Reason--Analysis

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...core of the Greek legal system. In short, Antiphons second tetralogy gives us yet another reason to question whether the sophists were as philosophically unsophisticated as we are often led to believe. Malebranche on Sensory Cognition and "Seeing As...
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Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Journal article by Christopher Lyle Johnstone; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 40, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (Book)--Book reviews

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...his word, disparaging the sophists as greedy cheaters"; a second...what Plato says about the sophists" but that revalues the doctrines...misrepresentation of the sophists," focusing on sophistic texts...contributions of each individual sophist in the context of Pre-Socratic...

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Rimbaud: Sophist of Insanity

Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 19, June 2001

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Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rhetoric--Usage, Rimbaud, Arthur--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Rimbaud: sophist of insanity by Eric Ormsby Stephane Mallarme caught a glimpse of Arthur...undramatic pain. I think that Rimbaud knew this, that he was, in fact, a sophist of insanity. Does he not exult "I played fine tricks on madness...
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In the Midst of a Second American Revolution

Magazine article by Nancy Salvato; World and I, Vol. 21, June 2006

Subjects:

Gramsci, Antonio--Works, Philosophers--Works, Political power--Analysis, Power (Social sciences)--Analysis, Rand, Ayn--Works, Universals (Philosophy)--Analysis, Universals and individuals (Philosophy)--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...prior culture wars: the rise of the Sophists in ancient Greece and the era identified...Aufklarung. (11) In the first: They Sophists boasted of their ability to make the...points were employed. In this way, the sophists tried to entangle, entrap, and confuse...
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Ancient Greece's Death Penalty Dilemma and Its Influence on Modern Society

Magazine article by Robert Blecker; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, July 2006

Subjects:

Ancient Greek civilization--Influence, Capital punishment--History, Capital punishment--Influence, Capital punishment--Social aspects, Civilization, Greek--Influence, Constitutions, Future punishment, Murderers--Civil rights, Premeditation (Law), Revenge, Society--Social policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...wandering teachers known as Sophists in a similar contest...the first and greatest Sophist. Every question has...relentlessly battled the Sophists, insisting on absolute...better off dead. Todays Sophists--who for centuries...will have confirmed the Sophist Thrasymachus definition...
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Aborting Logic

Magazine article by Donald Demarco; Human Life Review, Vol. 34, Fall 2008

Subjects:

Abortion, Books, Business closings, Political correctness, Pro choice movement, Pro life movement, Surgical apparatus & instruments

Collections: Entire Library

...Socrates stood courageously against the Sophists. He wanted to engage in a productive...ground that makes dialogue possible. The Sophists were content merely to seem to be wise...abortion or in its defense. Because the Sophists and pro-abortionists both reject wisdom...
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The State-of-the-Art School: A Fairy Tale

Magazine article by David A. Gilman, Ruth Ann Gilman; Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Vol. 11, Summer 2002

Subjects:

Educational technology--Usage, Schools--Science and technology policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...had become divided into three factions. Sophists, Luddites, and Obfuscators Some were Sophists who proclaimed that this was an idea whose...demise of the State of the Art School. The Sophists were not able to create lessons quickly enough...

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HOW SASHA AND MALIA DID THEIR BIT TO MAKE LANGUAGE HEROIC AGAIN; YOU TALKIN' TO ME? RHETORIC FROM ARISTOTLE TO OBAMA by Sam Leith (Profile Books, [Pounds Sterling]14.99)

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 13, 2011

Subjects:

Books

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...you have earned the puppy thats coming with us to the new White House.") Rhetoric was no longer the preserve of dead white sophists. It had become heroic again. Knowing the importance of "kairos", or picking your moment, Leith may wish he had published...
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GREECE LIGHTNING; Troy Special Issue: Why Do Men Want Six-Packs and Women Hate Body Hair? in This Exclusive Feature, Based on His New Book, Cambridge Professor Simon Goldhill Examines the Influence That the Great Ancient Civilisation of Greece Has Had on Modern Life

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 25, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...democracy about the professional experts in communication who were hired to make weak arguments look stronger. They called them sophists. Their techniques threatened the whole political process, they said. If that sounds familiar, it is because it is another...
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Questioning Federally Funded Human Embryo Research

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 31, 1999

Subjects:

Singer, Peter

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...appointees to recommend legislation permitting taxpayer-subsidized laboratory experiments with human embryos are being used by sophists in our universities who would warrant the killing of unwanted newborns should give one pause. Let those who are inclined to...
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Why Conservatives Must Recognize Mr. Farrakhan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 25, 1997

Subjects:

Farrakhan, Louis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...like nature, abhors a vacuum. If traditional leaders do not address issues of profound cultural and material importance, sophists of a demagogic nature will fill the void. Assuredly, Mr. Farrakhan is not the solution to the feeling of crisis many black...
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Giving the Lie Its Share of the Credit

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, September 23, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Benjamin Jowett called "the Absolute Talker." Platos anti-Sophist shadow hangs over the Middle Ages, until the idea of authoritarian...I mentioned that argument reaching back to Plato and the Sophists; it comes up again with the English Puritans, who, after...

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Sophists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SOPHISTS sof ists, originally, itinerant teachers...was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment for his instruction...1846) was one of the first defenses of the Sophists. Modern studies have stressed the contributions...
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Socrates

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to him some of the faults of the Sophists (professional teachers of rhetoric...Although Socrates in fact baited the Sophists, his other critics seem to have...a professional specialty as the Sophists had pretended to teach it. However...
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Philosophy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Aristotle , at the Academy in Athens. Roman philosophy was based mainly on the later schools of Greek philosophy, such as the Sophists , the Cynics , Stoicism , and epicureanism . In late antiquity, Neoplatonism , chiefly represented by Plotinus , became the...
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Aristophanes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Peloponnesian War; The Knights (424), a political satire on the demagoguery of the period; The Clouds (423), a satire on the sophists and on Socrates; The Wasps (422), a satire on the Athenian passion for litigation; The Peace (421), a defense of the...
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Protagoras

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PROTAGORAS protag r s, c.490 c.421 b.c., Greek philosopher of Abdera, one of the more distinguished Sophists . He taught for a time in Athens, where he was a friend of Pericles and knew Socrates, but was forced to flee because of his...

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