Plato’s Gorgias labyrinth and threads

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 Gorgi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tomaz Fidalgo (auth), Carvalho, Mário Jorge de, editor (editor), Fidalgo, Tomaz, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Portugal : Coimbra University Press 2020
2020
Edición:Second edition
Colección:Outros titulos
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789892620077