Gorgias/Gorgias: The Sicilian Orator and the Platonic Dialogue
Gorgias of Leontinoi in Sicily is widely considered to be the most prominent and important of the sophists. He traveled to Athens in 427 BCE—about the time Plato was born—where he earned both the ire of philosophers and the obols of young men keen on learning the powerful art of logos. As the dialog...
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| description | Gorgias of Leontinoi in Sicily is widely considered to be the most prominent and important of the sophists. He traveled to Athens in 427 BCE—about the time Plato was born—where he earned both the ire of philosophers and the obols of young men keen on learning the powerful art of logos. As the dialogue named for him shows, Gorgias is representative for Plato of rhetoric and sophistry and all the ways in which they stray from, or even threaten, the philosophical attainment of truth, thereby imperiling the well-being of the polis. Although some of Gorgias’s work survives—and is included here in new translations—none of it is as widely studied as Plato’s Gorgias. For this and other reasons, there has been a scholarly tendency to treat rhetoric and Gorgias himself as opposed, or even antithetical to, philosophy. As the articles in this volume make clear, however, there is much that is philosophical in Gorgias’s work, just as there is much that is rhetorical in the method of Plato’s Socrates. In fact, there is great nuance to Plato’s treatment of Gorgias’s rhetorical abilities, and Gorgias himself can be understood as a subtle and sophisticated (in the positive sense) philosopher. In short, the papers collected here show that the relationship between Plato and Gorgias—and, more generally, between philosophy and rhetoric—is much more complicated, and potentially more mutually beneficial, than is traditionally recognized.Edited by S. Montgomery Ewegen and Coleen P. Zoller, the volume contains new translations of Gorgias’s Helen, Palamedes, and On Not Being, introduced by Jurgen R. Gatt. In addition to Ewegen and Zoller, essays have been contributed by Livio Rossetti, François Renaud, R.J. Barnes, Mauro Serra, Stamatia Dova, Erminia Di Iulio, Enrico Piergiacomi, Edward Schiappa, Yosef Z. Liebersohn, Robert Metcalf, and Sonja Tanner. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1164312024-04-08T20:10:27Z Gorgias/Gorgias: The Sicilian Orator and the Platonic Dialogue Montgomery Ewegen, S. Zoller, Coleen P. Philosophy Language & Literature bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCA Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHA Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Gorgias of Leontinoi in Sicily is widely considered to be the most prominent and important of the sophists. He traveled to Athens in 427 BCE—about the time Plato was born—where he earned both the ire of philosophers and the obols of young men keen on learning the powerful art of logos. As the dialogue named for him shows, Gorgias is representative for Plato of rhetoric and sophistry and all the ways in which they stray from, or even threaten, the philosophical attainment of truth, thereby imperiling the well-being of the polis. Although some of Gorgias’s work survives—and is included here in new translations—none of it is as widely studied as Plato’s Gorgias. For this and other reasons, there has been a scholarly tendency to treat rhetoric and Gorgias himself as opposed, or even antithetical to, philosophy. As the articles in this volume make clear, however, there is much that is philosophical in Gorgias’s work, just as there is much that is rhetorical in the method of Plato’s Socrates. In fact, there is great nuance to Plato’s treatment of Gorgias’s rhetorical abilities, and Gorgias himself can be understood as a subtle and sophisticated (in the positive sense) philosopher. In short, the papers collected here show that the relationship between Plato and Gorgias—and, more generally, between philosophy and rhetoric—is much more complicated, and potentially more mutually beneficial, than is traditionally recognized.Edited by S. Montgomery Ewegen and Coleen P. Zoller, the volume contains new translations of Gorgias’s Helen, Palamedes, and On Not Being, introduced by Jurgen R. Gatt. In addition to Ewegen and Zoller, essays have been contributed by Livio Rossetti, François Renaud, R.J. Barnes, Mauro Serra, Stamatia Dova, Erminia Di Iulio, Enrico Piergiacomi, Edward Schiappa, Yosef Z. Liebersohn, Robert Metcalf, and Sonja Tanner. 2023-10-05T11:04:28Z 2023-10-05T11:04:28Z 2022 book ONIX_20231005_9781942495550_2139 9781942495550 9781942495543 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116431 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv36cj70n Parnassos Press – Fonte Aretusa 10.2307/j.ctv36cj70n 10.2307/j.ctv36cj70n 0fc2431c-0ec4-4bcf-9110-d008dc533c0d 9781942495550 9781942495543 open access |
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