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| Gorgias: ca. 480 - 380 BC. Gorgias was a famous speaker and teacher. He was probably the first to suggest the thesis that a desired effect in the listener can be achieved by skillfully addressing the affects, regardless of the content of the speech. (See Der kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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B. H. F. Taureck on Gorgias - Dictionary of Arguments
I 15 Gorgias/Sophist/Taureck: (~ 485 Leontinoi, Sicily - 376, Thessaly): he was in no conflict with the state power. He was influenced by the physician and philosopher Empedocles (~ 495 - 435). In 427, Gorgias was entrusted with an embassy to Athens by his hometown. He won the General Assembly for support against Syracuse. He had a great influence on the politicians Pericles, Alcibiades and Critias, but also on Thucydides. Among his pupils was Isocrates, whose attempt at a general consensus-based ethics was temporally better known than Plato's philosophy. >Change/Gorgias, >Existence/Gorgias, >Logos/Gorgias, >Perception/Gorgias, >Understanding/Gorgias. >Isocrates, >Sophists. Additional literature on Gorgias: Scott Consigny (2001). Gorgias, Sophist and Artist. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press. Additional literature on the sophists: W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016. Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005. Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972. John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Taureck I B. H.F. Taureck Die Sophisten Hamburg 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27