Plato’s Gorgias - Labyrinth and Threads
Tomaz Fidalgo
Plato’s Gorgias - Labyrinth and Threads - Coimbra University Press 2020 - 1 electronic resource (274 p.)
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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 subjectmatter – 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.
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English
978-989-26-2007-7 9789892620145
10.14195/978-989-26-2007-7 doi
Philosophy
Plato’s Gorgias - Labyrinth and Threads - Coimbra University Press 2020 - 1 electronic resource (274 p.)
Open Access
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 subjectmatter – 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.
Creative Commons
English
978-989-26-2007-7 9789892620145
10.14195/978-989-26-2007-7 doi
Philosophy