I argue in this paper that the formulation of the eristic paradox in Plato’s Meno (80d5‑e5) echoes Xenophanes’ Frg. 34, by drawing attention to a number of significant similarities of expression and to equally significant points of theoretical tension between the two texts. Bringing into focus such further authors as Protagoras, Gorgias, and Metrodorus of Chius, I claim that Xenophanes’ epistemological option was central to the philosophical debate in the Sophistic milieu, and that here started a “pre‑skeptical” reading of Frg. 34, which was to affect Plato’s
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The monograph continues by looking at how these two streams emerge from one single---albeit complex-...
The scope and scientific-philosophical intention and significance of Xenophanes’ tenets have been co...
This paper shows that one of Plato's goals in Euthydemus dialogue is to present the eristic as the o...
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FURTADO, Francisca Andréa Brito. O amor paradoxal nos discursos pronunciados no fedro platônico: uma...
El autor propone una serie de claves exegéticas para solucionar las posibles "extrañezas" o "inconsi...
In Euripides' tragedy, in the recognition of Helen, Menelaus runs through the same stages of the pat...
The first part of my hypothesis, then, is simple enough, and would be accepted in principle by most ...
The purpose of this paper is to show how Plato did not have, at a glance, the poet as his main oppon...
Si cerca di mostrare che le tendenze eleatiche erano molto diffuse nell´ Atene del IV secolo, probab...
Warranting further examination is how the nascent philosophical tradition initially spread to this r...
This thesis scrutinizes the use of the term eikos/eoikos (usually translated either as ‘like’ or ‘li...
The monograph continues by looking at how these two streams emerge from one single---albeit complex-...
The scope and scientific-philosophical intention and significance of Xenophanes’ tenets have been co...
This paper shows that one of Plato's goals in Euthydemus dialogue is to present the eristic as the o...
In un passo del ix libro della Repubblica (588c), dovendo semplificare la differenza sostanziale esi...
International audienceIn the Clouds Aristophanes creates the complex character of a Socrates, with m...
By proposing the model of Cyrus the Great as ideal monarch in his Cyropaedia, Xenophon gives his own...
The purpose of this paper is to outline a comparative framework of dialectic as it is thought by Ze...
FURTADO, Francisca Andréa Brito. O amor paradoxal nos discursos pronunciados no fedro platônico: uma...
El autor propone una serie de claves exegéticas para solucionar las posibles "extrañezas" o "inconsi...
In Euripides' tragedy, in the recognition of Helen, Menelaus runs through the same stages of the pat...
The first part of my hypothesis, then, is simple enough, and would be accepted in principle by most ...
The purpose of this paper is to show how Plato did not have, at a glance, the poet as his main oppon...