Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrɡiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας [ɡorɡíaːs]) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates...
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ragionamento di Gorgia (Italian) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine A theory referring to the theory of Gorgias Works by or about Gorgias at the Internet...
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Gorgias was a Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician. Gorgias may also refer to: Gorgias (dialogue), an important Socratic dialogue Gorgias...
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Plato's Gorgias dialogue. The dialogue references the Trial of Socrates, which takes place in 399 BCE and is set right. At the end of the dialogue, as Socrates...
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Callicles (section Callicles in Plato’s Gorgias)
Athenian political philosopher. He figures prominently in Plato’s dialogue Gorgias, where he "presents himself as a no-holds-barred, bare-knuckled, clear-headed...
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Socratic dialogue (Ancient Greek: Σωκρατικὸς λόγος) is a genre of literary prose developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BC. The earliest...
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translit. Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed...
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Dialectic (redirect from Collective dialogue)
meaningful. In another example, in Plato's Gorgias, dialectic occurs between Socrates, the Sophist Gorgias, and two men, Polus and Callicles. Because...
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Τίμαιος, translit. Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus, written...
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Protagoras (/proʊˈtæɡərəs/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Πρωταγόρας) is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists"...
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Dialogus de oratoribus (redirect from Dialogue on Oratory)
The Dialogus de oratoribus is a short work attributed to Tacitus, in dialogue form, on the art of rhetoric. Its date of composition is unknown, though...
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Plato (redirect from Dialogues of Plato)
Virtue: Beauty, Truth and Goodness Nine Dialogues by Plato: Pheadrus, Lysis, Protagoras, Charmides, Parmenides, Gorgias, Theaetetus, Meno & Sophist. Authorhouse...
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Apology (Plato) (redirect from Apology (dialogue))
Sokrátous; Latin: Apologia Socratis), written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates (469–399 BC) spoke at...
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Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports...
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possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues. Socrates, the Greek philosopher. In this dialogue, he questions the nature of art and of divine...
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The Menexenus (/məˈnɛksənəs/; Greek: Μενέξενος) is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater...
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Phaedo (redirect from Phaedo (dialogue))
the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality...
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name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is...
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Meno (redirect from Dialogue of meno)
well-born, he is a student of Gorgias, a prominent sophist whose views on virtue clearly influence that of Meno's. Early in the dialogue, Meno claims that he has...
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Critias (/ˈkrɪtiəs/; Greek: Κριτίας), one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer...
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Balakrishnan Gopinath Kaviraj Gordon Anderson (author) Gordon Park Baker Gorgias Gorgias (dialogue) Gotama Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gotthard Günther...
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the stem Λύσιδ-, from which the infrequent translation Lysides), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (φιλία), often translated...
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Crito (redirect from Crito (dialogue))
KRY-toh or /ˈkriːtoʊ/ KREE-toh; Ancient Greek: Κρίτων [krítɔːn]) is a dialogue that was written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It depicts a conversation...
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Laws (Greek: Νόμοι, Nómoi; Latin: De Legibus) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. The conversation depicted in the work's twelve books begins with the question...
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The Charmides (/ˈkɑːrmɪdiːz/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in...
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orator Gorgias, and teacher of oratory from the city of Acragas, Sicily. Almost everything that is known about Polus comes from the Socratic dialogues of...
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his dialogue Gorgias, Plato discusses pleasure versus pain in the realm of pathos though in a (probably fictional) conversation between Gorgias and Socrates...
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Euthydemus (Greek: Εὐθύδημος, Euthydemes), written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the...
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Euthyphro (category Dialogues of Plato)
is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects...
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