A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... argument often used , that he could not have directed his own attacks against men who were writing up to sixty years before himself , and that therefore his Protagoras is not Protagoras but a disguised Aristippus , his Prodicus a ...
... argument often used , that he could not have directed his own attacks against men who were writing up to sixty years before himself , and that therefore his Protagoras is not Protagoras but a disguised Aristippus , his Prodicus a ...
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... argument for moral relativity , since it showed both parties agreed on the fundamental moral principle , that parents should be honoured in death as in life : the dispute was only about the means of fulfilling it . Thucydides ( 2.97.3–4 ) ...
... argument for moral relativity , since it showed both parties agreed on the fundamental moral principle , that parents should be honoured in death as in life : the dispute was only about the means of fulfilling it . Thucydides ( 2.97.3–4 ) ...
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... argument.1 Anyone who had this quality was a natural object of suspicion to his less clever fellows , as Antiphon the orator , says Thucydides ( 8.68.1 ) , was to the Athenian public ' on account of his reputation for deinotes ' , and ...
... argument.1 Anyone who had this quality was a natural object of suspicion to his less clever fellows , as Antiphon the orator , says Thucydides ( 8.68.1 ) , was to the Athenian public ' on account of his reputation for deinotes ' , and ...
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... argument ) they had simply become ( along with other undesirable characteristics ) ' paid hunters of rich young men ' . Mistrust of the Soph- ists was not confined to Plato . The outburst of Anytus must be true to life , as it is also ...
... argument ) they had simply become ( along with other undesirable characteristics ) ' paid hunters of rich young men ' . Mistrust of the Soph- ists was not confined to Plato . The outburst of Anytus must be true to life , as it is also ...
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... argument , like the herald at Olympia , summons whoever will come , but crowns only those who can succeed.3 Thucydides is contrasting himself with the Sophists when he says that his own work is not intended as a ' competition - piece ...
... argument , like the herald at Olympia , summons whoever will come , but crowns only those who can succeed.3 Thucydides is contrasting himself with the Sophists when he says that his own work is not intended as a ' competition - piece ...
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