During the fourth century BC, Greek thinkers discussed about the limits and characteristics of philosophy in order to distinguish it from other practices. In this paper, I will focus on the portrait of sophists as diametrically opposed to philosophers. Specifically, I will discuss the platonic answer to the charge that Isocrates directed against all Socrates' disciples in the treatises Against the Sophists and Encomium of Helen. I will defend that Plato's strategy to avoid his critics was to develop, in the Euthydemus and the fifth definition of the Sophist, a character that combines the most significant attributes censured by Isocrates: the eristic sophist. I will argue that this figure does not refer to the Sophists of the fifth century B...
Ancient Greek philosophers, as it is well known, used many literary genres in their works: epic, lyr...
No início do século IV a.C., Platão e Isócrates instituíram as duas mais importantes escolas de Aten...
Es por demás conocida la crítica que Aristóteles presenta en el libro VII de Ética nicomaquea al así...
El presente artículo propone una lectura del Eutidemo de Platón a partir de la escena que tiene luga...
Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue since it belongs to the group of Plato's early dialogues, in wh...
In this paper, we depart from a general conception about sophistry, opposing it to philosophy, aimin...
Around 390-80 BC, the Athenian Isocrates composed one of his first speeches as an educator, the Hele...
Several scholars have suggested that Isocrates’ speeches Against the Sophists and Encomium of Helen ...
Plato outlines Philosophy as a discipline that surpasses other genres, like poetry and rhetoric, and...
La enseñanza de la filosofía ha sido históricamente escenario de agón y competencia, no sólo de coop...
This paper is an analysis of the relationship of Plato and Heraclitus of Ephesus on the basis of the...
In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of character...
Os enfoques tradicionais da história da retórica clássica incluem em sua etapa sofística os aportes ...
O presente artigo tem como intuito elucidar a distinção entre sofística e retórica no diálogo Górgi...
La enseñanza de la filosofía ha sido históricamente escenario de agón y competencia, no sólo de coop...
Ancient Greek philosophers, as it is well known, used many literary genres in their works: epic, lyr...
No início do século IV a.C., Platão e Isócrates instituíram as duas mais importantes escolas de Aten...
Es por demás conocida la crítica que Aristóteles presenta en el libro VII de Ética nicomaquea al así...
El presente artículo propone una lectura del Eutidemo de Platón a partir de la escena que tiene luga...
Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue since it belongs to the group of Plato's early dialogues, in wh...
In this paper, we depart from a general conception about sophistry, opposing it to philosophy, aimin...
Around 390-80 BC, the Athenian Isocrates composed one of his first speeches as an educator, the Hele...
Several scholars have suggested that Isocrates’ speeches Against the Sophists and Encomium of Helen ...
Plato outlines Philosophy as a discipline that surpasses other genres, like poetry and rhetoric, and...
La enseñanza de la filosofía ha sido históricamente escenario de agón y competencia, no sólo de coop...
This paper is an analysis of the relationship of Plato and Heraclitus of Ephesus on the basis of the...
In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of character...
Os enfoques tradicionais da história da retórica clássica incluem em sua etapa sofística os aportes ...
O presente artigo tem como intuito elucidar a distinção entre sofística e retórica no diálogo Górgi...
La enseñanza de la filosofía ha sido históricamente escenario de agón y competencia, no sólo de coop...
Ancient Greek philosophers, as it is well known, used many literary genres in their works: epic, lyr...
No início do século IV a.C., Platão e Isócrates instituíram as duas mais importantes escolas de Aten...
Es por demás conocida la crítica que Aristóteles presenta en el libro VII de Ética nicomaquea al así...