George Briscoe Kerferd (12 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Des sophistes, on sait qu'ils furent des professeurs independants qui delivraient leur enseignement en echange d'un salaire, des intellectuels qui marquerent de leur influence les profondes mutations de la societe athenienne au cours de la seconde moitie du cinquieme siecle avant Jesus-Christ, des penseurs que Platon et Aristote presenterent comme des charlatans, les confinant ainsi, pour longtemps, en marge de la philosophie. Les sophistes sont des penseurs eminents qui se sont interesses au langage, a l'education, aux questions politiques et anthropologiques, aux problemes ontologiques, cosmologiques, epistemologiques, theologiques, sociaux et ethiques. Les positions qu'adoptent Platon sont une reponse aux interrogations philosophiques posees par les sophistes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Des sophistes, on sait qu'ils furent des professeurs independants qui delivraient leur enseignement en echange d'un salaire, des intellectuels qui marquerent de leur influence les profondes mutations de la societe athenienne au cours de la seconde moitie du cinquieme siecle avant Jesus-Christ, des penseurs que Platon et Aristote presenterent comme des charlatans, les confinant ainsi, pour longtemps, en marge de la philosophie. Les sophistes sont des penseurs eminents qui se sont interesses au langage, a l'education, aux questions politiques et anthropologiques, aux problemes ontologiques, cosmologiques, epistemologiques, theologiques, sociaux et ethiques. Les positions qu'adoptent Platon sont une reponse aux interrogations philosophiques posees par les sophistes. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. InhaltsverzeichnisPreface 1. Introduction 2. Towards a history of interpretations of the sophistic movement 3. The sophists as a social phenomenon 4. The meaning of the term sophist 5. The individual sophists 6. Dialectic, antilogi. …