• Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrɡiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας [ɡorɡíaːs]) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates...
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  • English translation Gorgias, selected texts (from Plato's Gorgias) in Greek (with German translation and vocabulary notes) Gorgias, entry in the Internet...
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    (1979). Plato: Gorgias. Oxford University Press. Irwin, T.H. (2011). "The Platonic Corpus". In Fine, G. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Plato. Oxford University...
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    works such as Phaedo, or the dialogue Gorgias, written around 200–300 CE. Fragments of a different version of Plato's Republic were discovered in 1945, part...
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  • Theory of forms (redirect from Form (Plato))
    realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. The theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as "Forms"...
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  • Persuasion in Greece. Gorgias, a Sophist who preceded Aristotle, was interested in the orator's emotional appeal as well. Gorgias believed the orator was...
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    Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect...
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    Doxa (section Plato)
    but calqued from the Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxia). In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato presents the sophists as wordsmiths who ensnared and used the malleable...
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    Plato's theory of the soul, which was inspired variously by the teachings of Socrates, considered the psyche (Ancient Greek: ψῡχή, romanized: psūkhḗ)...
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    variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School,[citation needed] was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle...
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