John Dillon (1)
Autor(a) de The Greek Sophists
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Origen of Alexandria: His World and His Legacy (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, Vol 1) (1988) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Approaching Late Antiquity: The Transformation from Early to Late Empire (2004) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
The Creation Of Heaven And Earth: Re-interpretations Of Genesis 1 In The Context Of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy,… (2007) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean… (2013) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Plato's Parmenides and Its Heritage: Volume I: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism… (2010) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition: Essays Presented to John Whittaker (1997) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Teleology in the ancient world : philosophical and medical approaches (2017) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology : Its Background and Aftermath (Philosophia Antiqua) (2001) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy (Studies in Philo of Alexandria) (2008) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Brown (2005) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change (2007) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2012) — Tradutor — 5 cópias
Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus: The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John Cleary (2013) — Editor — 4 cópias
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception) (2016) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (Brill's Plutarch Studies) (2019) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Reading the Statesman: Proceedings of the III Symposium Platonicum (International Plato studies) (1995) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
From Augustine to Eriugena : essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in honor of John O'Meara (1991) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
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- university professor
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- Trinity College, Dublin
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Having Platonist sympathies, I have had a tendency to see the Sophists as hacks and con men. But reading this has at least helped in appreciating the ways they utilized language. Also, they did lay bare the ambiguities of language in some cases--even if one recognizes how ridiculous some of their semantical arguments really are. Plato gets this across to some degree in his dialogues that portray the sophists, but it is indeed often ironical there. Seneca noted a sophistical argument (originally attributed to Eubulides and not included in this book) that went something like this: "That which you have not lost, you have. You have not lost horns. Therefore, you have horns." These kinds of language conundrums are pretty silly on the surface, but if they help one to recognize the ambiguities of language, they may be of some utility. It was this kind of language trickery that the Sophists were known for. Whether Euthydemus and Dionysodorus took seriously their suppositional false dichotomy that one either knows nothing or knows everything is not entirely clear, but one can at least appreciate their demonstration of conundrums that occasionally accompany language when it comes to sense and context. They can be given credit for that at least. Although, one must admit that the Sophists often made money off of simple word chicanery.
Along with the above, the Sophists were the earliest Western thinkers that recognized the power of language in and upon society. Language really is capable of incredible influence when it is formulated and constructed in particular ways. The Sophists should be appreciated for being among the first to recognize this and the first to teach wordcraft. We take this for granted in this day in age, where advertisers and politicians have been manipulating people with constructed language for generations.
As I've stated before in other reviews, when it comes to the early Stoics, the Pre-Socratics and also the Sophists, our knowledge is rather paltry in terms of textual evidence because the original works mostly only exist in fragments (a notable exception is Gorgias) and in treatments by other writers. Be that as it may, when one sees all the fragments and references collected in one source as this book seeks to do, one can get a pretty good idea of what these thinkers were working with.
I give the book around three-and-a-half stars. It kept my attention and I found the accompanying commentary quite engaging.… (mais)