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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"sophists"”.
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The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue
This dissertation is a study of the Greek sophists as teachers of <i>aretê</i> (virtue or human excellence) and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… by looking at Plato’s characterization of the sophists in ‘sophistic dialogues,’ such as the <em>Gorgias</em>, <em>Protagoras</em>, <em>Euthydemus</em>, <em>Hippias Major </em>and <em>Hippias Minor</em>, where they perform within a competitive context alongside Socrates, we see that the …
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Women of the spheres: Early American women rhetoricians
… rhetorical approaches to those of the first Sophists. The feminist sophistic approach redefines the theory and practice of rhetoric to include women's works and a field of rhetoric more equitable toward women. A series of four feminist-sophistic criteria may be used to analyze early American …
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Socratic Ethics in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic
… concerns of his interlocutors, particularly the sophists.
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Toward a Rhetoric of Marketing for High-Tech Services
… how the first professional teachers, the Sophists, used rhetoric to promote their services. The canons of rhetoric are then analyzed to show their modern significance. This study also considers visual rhetoric and how writers can use it effectively. This study shows that companies should …
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
… technical communication begins and ends with the sophists and Aristotle. Though scholars have occasionally referenced archaic literature in their analysis of the discourse of technical communication, their arguments focus on rhetorical and poetic devices, such as tropes and schemes, to argue that …
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Aristotle’s On Memory and Recollection: Concepts, Sources, and Innovations of Aristotle’s Account of Mnemonic Capacities and Activities
… epic poets, a technique for Simonides and the Sophists, a personal capacity for Aristotle. The last chapter spells out some original considerations about Aristotle’s On memory and recollection. Firstly, a reassessment of Sorabji’s theory of ‘imagination’ applied to memory is tried in the first …
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Kaleidoscope Catechesis: Critique and Response to Missionary Catechesis in Africa with Particular Reference to the Diocese of Wa in Ghana
… room in catechesis for repeating the sin of the sophists by denying the necessity of subject matter (Christian Doctrine) and insisting that forma alone is desirable. Rather a union of both matter and form must be concurrently pursued as a rhetorical endeavor.</p><p> Therefore, this study will …
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Binján áv - A rabbinikus gondolkodásmód analízise egy rabbinikus írásmagyarázati szabály logikai vizsgálatán keresztül
… rabbies is very similar to the method of Greek sophists. The sophists achieved high rhetorical, grammatical and logical abilities, and they could prove anything from anything and the reverse of it as well. (9) The rabbinical decisions were verified by the majority and were supported by the …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
… possibilities in language; like the early sophists, they call for discourse which uses details and examples in narrative, mythic, and allegorical modes. Vico's Imaginative Representation expresses poetic, imaginative forms of thought or discourse through which an individual senses a world …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
… is a political animal, Aristotle overcame the Sophists' opposition between law and nature. My dissertation looks at whether the law successfully promotes the human good in Aristotle's political philosophy. Aristotle believes law should inculcate the virtues of character. In Chapter One, I argue …
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Where is Socrates going? : the philosophy of conversion in Plato's "Euthydemus".
… the competitive values of Greek society. The two sophists in this dialogue hardly merit serious, sustained attention. They make no serious arguments and do not seem clever enough to conceal the speciousness of their method. They practice eristic controversy for only one purpose: to refute their …
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Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Nature
… nature in the φύσις-νόμος debate among the Greek sophists, and ultimately to the suggestion that the Platonic and Aristotelian defense of the value of philosophy is grounded in a defense and development of the idea of purposive nature.</p>
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Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
… on one of the eight circles. The eponymous sophists of the Protagoras and Euthydemus are chorus leaders, who lead their enchanted and entertained pupils in choruses of dubious sincerity, which seemingly parody traditional Archaic choral paideia and the Laws’ own education programme (Prot. …