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Gorgias (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr dʒ i ə s / GOR-jee-əs; [1] Ancient Greek: Γοργίας; c. 483 BC – c. 375 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily.
Ioane Petritsi (Georgian: იოანე პეტრიწი, romanized: ioane p'et'rits'i) also referred as John Petritzos [1] was a Georgian Neoplatonist philosopher of the 11th–12th century, active in the Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Georgia, best known for his translations of Proclus, along with an extensive commentary.
Poulakos says that sophistry, as a rhetorical era, has been bogged down by philosophers like Plato, and deserves more respect and contemporary appreciation. [5] Poulakos' main concern is that the importance in sophistic discourse can be broken down into five different points: rhetoric is an art, style can be used as personal expression, kairos, which is the opportune moment, to prepon, also ...
Gorgias (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr ɡ i ə s /; [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.
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to whom he was a rival and opponent.We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists (Περὶ Σοφιστῶν), directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches (a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates [citation ...
Ordinary language philosophy. John Rawls (1921–2002). Liberal. Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996). Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017). Polish sociologist and philosopher, who introduced the idea of liquid modernity. Frantz Fanon (1925–1961). Postcolonialism; Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995). Post-structuralism
He features heavily in the Gorgias, a dialogue on the nature of rhetoric. Polus also appears in the Phaedrus and the Theages. Outside of Plato's work, he is also mentioned in Book 1 of Aristotle's Metaphysics. [2] Much of what is known about Polus comes from Plato's Gorgias. What we get from this text is a look into Polus' beliefs about rhetoric.