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... Gorgias 192 ( 4 ) Other views : scepticism extreme and moder- ate ( Xeniades , Cratylus , Antiphon ) ( 5 ) Language and its objects ( 6 ) Grammar Additional notes : ( 1 ) Prodicus and Thucy- dides , ( 2 ) Synonymic and philosophy IX ...
... Gorgias 192 ( 4 ) Other views : scepticism extreme and moder- ate ( Xeniades , Cratylus , Antiphon ) ( 5 ) Language and its objects ( 6 ) Grammar Additional notes : ( 1 ) Prodicus and Thucy- dides , ( 2 ) Synonymic and philosophy IX ...
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... Gorgias or Melissus , and Plato was wise enough to go for the great originals rather than their less talented imitators . In any case his procedure needs no special explanation , since it can be paralleled in most ages . Freud , and not ...
... Gorgias or Melissus , and Plato was wise enough to go for the great originals rather than their less talented imitators . In any case his procedure needs no special explanation , since it can be paralleled in most ages . Freud , and not ...
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... Gorgias is undeniable , as is that of Heraclitus on Protagoras , and Gorgias is said to have been a pupil and follower of Empedocles.1 One of the most powerful influences for humanism is to be found in the theories of the natural ...
... Gorgias is undeniable , as is that of Heraclitus on Protagoras , and Gorgias is said to have been a pupil and follower of Empedocles.1 One of the most powerful influences for humanism is to be found in the theories of the natural ...
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... Gorgias was quite capable of using arguments of the Eleatic type to prove the direct contrary of the Eleatic conclusion : not ' what is , is ' , but what is is not , and nothing exists ( pp . 193 ff . below ) . Besides their remoteness ...
... Gorgias was quite capable of using arguments of the Eleatic type to prove the direct contrary of the Eleatic conclusion : not ' what is , is ' , but what is is not , and nothing exists ( pp . 193 ff . below ) . Besides their remoteness ...
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... Gorgias ' the word ' was a despot who could do anything , but like a slave of the lamp it would be at the ser- vice of those who took his courses . Reading the remains of Gorgias's writings , one is not inclined to accuse Plato of ...
... Gorgias ' the word ' was a despot who could do anything , but like a slave of the lamp it would be at the ser- vice of those who took his courses . Reading the remains of Gorgias's writings , one is not inclined to accuse Plato of ...
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agree Alcibiades Alcidamas Antiphon Antisthenes Apol appears areté argued argument Aristippus Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle's atheism Athenian Athens believed called Callicles character claim Clouds connexion contemporary Cratylus Critias criticism death definition democracy Democritus dialogue Diogenes discussion divine doctrine Eleatic ethical Euripides evidence existence fact fifth century Gesch give gods Gomperz Gorgias Greek Grote Halbb Hippias historical human idea interest Isocrates justice knowledge logos Lycophron matter means mentioned mind moral nature Nestle nomoi nomos opinion orator origin Parmenides passage Phaedo philosophers physis Plato pleasure poets political practical probably Prodicus Prot Protagoras Protagoras's psyche pupil question quoted reference rhetoric says sense Sextus slave Socrates Socrates's Sophists Sophs soul speaks speech teaching Theaet Theaetetus theory things thought Thrasymachus Thucydides true truth Untersteiner unwritten laws virtue VMzuL words writing Xenophon Zeus καὶ τὸ τῶν