Plato's Gorgias. Labyrinth and Threads

Autor: Oliveira, Samuel, Fidalgo, Tomaz, Carvalho, M. Jorge de, Telo, Hélder, Lima, Paulo, Caeiro, António de Castro, Ferro, Bernardo
Přispěvatelé: Carvalho, M. J., Fidalgo, T.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3567852
Popis: Though at first it may seem to deal with rather specific questions concerning rhetoric, Plato’s Gorgias turns out to be about human life, and what is at stake in it. This apparent “change of subject” – or rather this ambiguity in the dialogue’s subject matter – has to do with the fact that the Gorgias is very much like a labyrinth: puzzling, intricate, made of multiple meandering paths in which one can easily get lost, and full of deviations which turn this way and that, of entrances that seem to be dead ends, and of dizzying turns that distort all sense of direction. The essays presented in this book make the "small steps"(spinning the fragmentary threads) to get know Gorgia's labyrinth better. Such is essential if one wants to solve the maze.
Databáze: OpenAIRE