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Giuseppe Mazzara
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Plato and Antisthenes in the Phaedo: A Reflexive Reading. Part One
2019
The purpose of this study is not so much to show the presence of Antisthenes in the dialogue, but rather to examine what Plato alludes to. The controversy over ideas between the two Socratics is historically very well-attested, as can already be seen in the Cratylus. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that this controversy must have affected Plato when he was writing a dialogue in which the importance of ideas and his new logic is undeniable. Hence, this paper will investigate the following question: what impact could Antisthenes’ denominative and definitory logic have on the equally denominative and definitory logic presented in the Phaedo given that the latter work in all probability preced…
La rhétorique éléatico-gorgienne d'Alcidamas chez Diogene Laerce (IX, 54) et des quatre fonctions fondamentales du logos
2005
Alcidamas' Eleatic-gorgian Rhetoric in Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) and the Four Fundamental Functions of the λόγος. This study aims to show that the testimony of Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) regarding the four functions of the λόγος by Alcidamas (φάσις - άπόφασις - ἐρώτησις - προσαγόρευσις : affirmation - negation / question - answer) could be considered as justified from both rhetorical and philosophical points of view. It offers the opportunity for two trains of thought : the first pair (φάσις - ἀπόφασις) could be related to the anti -predicative function of λόγος, but also to the predicative function implied in Gorgias' own dialectics of ἀντίθεσις. The second pair (ἐρώτησις - προσαγόρευσις)…