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Sophists
Sophists , originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. BC) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The term was given as a mark of respect. Protagoras was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment for his... Read more |
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Eunapius
Eunapius , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His continuation of Dexippus' history is lost. Like many Neoplatonists he opposed Christianity.... Read more |
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Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian Guitarist Attention of Hammond Led to Goodman Gig Sophisticated Beyond His Years Minton Read more |
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Gorgias
Gorgias , c.485-c.380 BC, Greek Sophist. From his native city, Leontini, Sicily, he was sent as an ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric. Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted: (1) Nothing exists; (2) If anything does exist, it... Read more |
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Ruth Draper
Ruth Draper 1884-1956, American monologist, b. New York City. The author of 36 monologues, ranging from farce to tragedy, she played the various characters within each sketch with only a change of costume and props. Her delicate and sophisticated art gained her worldwide acclaim.... Read more |
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Urbanity
Urbanity BIBLIOGRAPHY Over the course of the nineteenth century in Europe and North America, urbanity came to be conceived as a personality trait. According to Richard Sennett (1974), public experience outside the private sphere of the home became an obligation for the self-development of men.... Read more |
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Hippias of Elis
HIPPIAS OF ELIS Hippias of Elis, the Greek Sophist and polymath, was probably born before 460 BCE. The date of his death is not known, but Plato speaks of him as one of the leading Sophists at the time of the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. On a number of occasions he acted as ambassador for his... Read more |
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Protagoras
Protagoras The Greek philosopher Protagoras (ca. 484-ca. 414 B.C.) was one of the best-known and most successful teachers of the Sophistic movement of the 5th century B.C. Protagoras was born in Abdera, the native city of Democritus, and spent much of his life as an itinerant Sophist,... Read more |
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Sybille Bedford
Bedford, Sybille (1911– ), author, whose best-known novel, The Legacy (1956), is a sophisticated account of the complex matrimonial and financial affairs of a wealthy German family in the years immediately preceding the First World War. A Favourite of the Gods (1962) and A Compass... Read more |
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sophists
sophists Professional Greek teachers of the 5th–4th centuries bc. Although not a formal school, they emphasized the intellectual and... |
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Plato
...the Protagoras, are good examples of Plato's dramatic skill; his mastery of ironic comedy is shown by his picture of the Sophists in the Euthydemus; of tragedy by the scene of Socrates' death in the Phaedo. His theories of literature and drama have had... |
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RHETORIC
...cases, and, as a result, the craft of rhetoric emerged through pleading in the Syracusan court. Itinerant teachers known as sophists (wise ones) then taught this forensic art alongside logic, a subject which was associated with the new craft of writing... |
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Bernstein, Charles
...not a unified meaning. Among his many later books are Poetic Justice (1979), Sense of Responsibility (1979), Artifice of Absorption (1988), and The Sophist (1988). His essays have been collected in Content's Dream (1985). |
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scepticism
...and which rejects all dogmatism, fanaticism, and intolerance. Scepticism had its origin in the teaching of some of the Sophists in the 5th cent. bc. ‘Pyrrhonian’ scepticism, associated with Pyrrho in the following century, held that any argument... |
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Socrates
...oracle at Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest man in Greece. Socrates' methodology was based on the dialectic. Unlike the Sophists, he believed that moral excellence is attained through self-knowledge. For Socrates, knowledge and virtue were synonymous... |
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sophists
sophists (Greek sophistes, “wise man”) Itinerant...southern Italy in the 5th century BC. Sophists offered instruction in a wide range of subjects...the truth. However, the most renowned sophists, such as Gorgias and Protagoras (c.485... |
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sophist
sophist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist • elegist • imagist • strategist •theurgist •genealogist... |
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sophism
...device, trick, argument, f. sophízesthai devise, f. sophós wise, clever; see -ISM. So sophist XVI. — L. sophistēs — Gr. sophister sophist. XIV. sophistic XVI, -ical XV. sophisticate (-ATE3) †adulterate XIV; corrupt, falsify... |
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collagist
collagist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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ecologist
ecologist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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leave
...no stone unturned try every possible expedient; the expression is used by Pliny in his Letters. The term was said by the sophist Zenobius to derive from a story of hidden Persian treasure.leave well alone a variant of let well alone.See also leave... |
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liturgist
liturgist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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mineralogist
mineralogist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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monarchist
monarchist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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pedologist
pedologist •pacifist • sophist •calligraphist, epigraphist •monographist • theosophist •unsurfaced • druggist • collagist •Falangist, phalangist •ageist... |
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pedant
...literallysynonyms: precisionist, perfectionist, formalist, dogmatist, literalist, quibbler, hairsplitter, casuist, sophist, pettifogger; inf. nitpicker. 2. pedants displaying their knowledgesynonyms: intellectual, academic, pedagogue, highbrow... |
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Sophist Surpasses Million Dollar Mark with Text-to-Pledge(TM) Program.
...week beginning May 19th, amounts raised through Sophist Productions' patent-pending Text-to-Pledge...represents the second largest revenue stream for Sophist-produced or Sophist-powered Non Profit events, with only ticket sales... |
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Indie label in Queens fights for cred; Without radio deals, Sophist uses...
...called on a small Queens company called Sophist Productions to work the celebration...the-art digital video turntables, Sophist staffers delivered a knockout performance...become a moneymaker for four-year-old Sophist. But for Chief Executive Reed Baker... |
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WHO'S A PHILOSOPHER? WHO'S A SOPHIST? THE STRANGER V. SOCRATES.(Critical Essay)
...to be a pretender--or sophist. If, on the other hand...the very first line of the Sophist Theodorus expresses his belief...Sometimes philosophers appear to be sophists, at other times statesmen...Elea believe that these--sophist, statesman, and philosopher... |
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Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The 'Parmenides,' 'Theaetetus,'...
...repeated allusions to the sophist's disordered soul, to...improved definition of the sophist, as Dorter seems to imply. If in the Statesman sophists are indeed defined as...indistinguishable from the sophist. As if to underscore this... |
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Gorgias: Sophist and Artist.(Book Review)
...95. Interest in the Sophists as teachers and theorists...Isocrates. In Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, Scott Consiguy...encourage those who see the Sophists as forerunners of antifoundationalism...part one of Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, SC examines...scholars ... |
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On Plato's 'Sophist.'
...OVER THE DISCUSSION at the beginning of the Sophist,(1) and agrees to discuss the sophist, the statesman, and the philosopher, it...soul with itself (Theaetetus 189e4-190a7; Sophist 263e3-264a3). A double negation is assigned... |
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Socrates and the Sophists; Plato's Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias major and...
...9781585103621 Socrates and the Sophists; Plato's Protagoras, Euthydemus...provide a clearer picture of sophists in Plato's dialogues and...Socrates makes of them than the Sophist itself. In the Protagoras...the Hippias Major, he says, sophists of various ... |
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The sophist on his craft: art, text, and self-construction in Lucian.
I Locating the "sophists" of the imperial period in a concrete...s opening essay in the Lives of the Sophists where "sophistic" is rhetorike philosophousa...his own formation and career as a "sophist." I will draw particular attention... |
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COLUMN: Richard Cohen is a sophist not an anti-Semite
...doesn't necessarily make the sophist an anti-Semite, I might...that anti-Semites love these sophists, adopt their language and...prejudice because, hey, the sophists are often Jews.Another point...or bizarrely - that Jewish sophists who sincerely want to ... |
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Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist.(Brief article)(Book review)
Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist David Ambuel Parmenides Publishing 3753...2736 "Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist" by David Ambuel (Associate Professor...translation of Plato's dialogue, the 'Sophist', along with a comprehensive and articulate... |
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