Who is afraid of the rhētōr? : : An analysis and exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' conversation in Plato's Gorgias /

Who is afraid of the rhētōr? : : An analysis and exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' conversation in Plato's Gorgias / / Yosef Z. Liebersohn.

This book concentrates on the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias which takes place in the first part of Plato's Gorgias. Scholars have tended to concentrate on the following two conversations held by Socrates with Polus and, especially, with Callicles. This first, relatively short, conve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
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Liebersohn, Yosef Z.,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:Multiple
Series:Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
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Physical Description:1 online resource (179 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. SOCRATES' FIRST MOVE (447A1-449B3): ANALYSIS
  • 3. SOCRATES' FIRST MOVE: INTERPRETATION
  • 4. RHĒTŌR AND DERIVATIVES: MEANINGS AND USAGES
  • 5. THE RHĒTORES IN GORGIAS' WORLDVIEW
  • 6. THE RHĒTŌR IN GORGIAS' WORLDVIEW
  • 7. GORGIAS' PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM: THE VACILLATION OF THE ARTIST
  • 8. SOCRATES' SECOND MOVE 449B4-461B2: ANALYSIS
  • 9. SOCRATES' SECOND MOVE: INTERPRETATION
  • 10. SOCRATES' PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM: THE VACILLATION OF THE ART
  • 11. POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS
  • 12. WITH A VIEW TO THE REST OF THE GORGIAS
  • 13. SUMMARY
  • 14. APPENDICES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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