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Dialogue. A conversation amongst participants in a 1972 cross-cultural youth convention. Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) [1] is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.
Platonism. Gorgias (/ ˈɡɔːrɡiəs /; [1] Greek: Γοργίας [ɡorɡíaːs]) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates and a small group at a dinner gathering. Socrates debates with self-proclaimed rhetoricians seeking the true definition of rhetoric, attempting to pinpoint ...
London, W. Owen, 1751. A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts) and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human ...
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 ones are preserved in the works of Plato and Xenophon and all involve Socrates as the protagonist. These dialogues, and subsequent ones in the genre, present a discussion of ...
The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions.. In Plato's dialogue "Theaetetus", Socrates describes his method as a form of "midwifery" because it is employed to help his interlocutors develop their understanding in a way analogous to a child developing in the womb.
Category:Dialogues of Plato. Category. : Dialogues of Plato. These are the dialogues ascribed to Plato in antiquity. Many of these frequently feature Socrates and are an important part of the Socratic dialogues. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dialogues by Plato.
The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul. It is set in the last hours prior to the death of Socrates, and is Plato's fourth and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, following Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. One of the main themes in the Phaedo is the idea that the soul is immortal.
ISBN. 1-85984-278-X. OCLC. 44780799. Dewey Decimal. 320/.01 21. LC Class. JA71 .B88 2000. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left is a collaborative book by the political theorists Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek published in 2000.