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The ancient Greek philosopher Antiphon was a contemporary of Socrates who lived in the fifth century BCE Athens. Antiphon wrote several major works, which have survived only in very fragmentary form. All that is known about these works as well as about Antiphon is included in this study. The material is translated, and its significance assessed in a detailed commentary that addresses the numerous problems raised by the fragmentary material. Antiphon's contribution to the wider history of ideas is addressed in conclusion. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Philosophy, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 474 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores major marketing and advertising campaigns from 1999-2006. Entries profile recent print, radio, television, billboard and Internet campaigns. Each essay discusses the historical context of the campaign, the target market, the competition, marketing strategy, and the outcome. ... Read more

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Den Anfang der Wissenschaft und Philosophie haben die Griechen gemacht. Um 600 v. Chr. ist an der Küste Kleinasiens und in den Griechenstädten Unteritaliens jene geistige Revolution in Gang gekommen, die noch heute die Grundlage unserer Erkenntnis bildet. Die alte Mythologie war unglaubwürdig geworden. Außerstande, die Welt noch länger im Spiegel der Religion zu sehen, begann man zu ahnen, daß sie ein Gebilde von eigener Gesetzlichkeit sei, ein System, das sich selbst trage, auch ohne Hilfe der Götter. Von nun an vertraute man deshalb dem Denken und der Beobachtung der Natur. Es waren Männer von unterschiedlichem Charakter, die zu den Wortführern der neuen Forschung wurden: Die ionischen Naturphilosophen, voran Thales, die den Ursprung der Welt ergründen wollten, die Pythagoreer mit ihren Zahlenspekulationen, der dunkle Heraklit, Parmenides, der die Wahrheit in neuen, gewagten Abstraktionen suchte, der philosophische Künder Empedokles, dann Demokrit, mit seiner Atomtheorie und schließlich die Sophisten, die Gegenspieler des Sokrates. Was sich von ihren Schriften erhalten hat, sind allerdings nur Fragmente. Doch mindert das keineswegs ihren Reiz. Gerade das Aphoristische der Gedanken, vereint mit einer wortgewaltigen, vom Pathos der Erkenntnis erfüllten Sprache, hat viel zur nie endenden Faszination dieser frühen Welterklärung beigetragen. ... Read more

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This sourcebook, a corrected reprint of the University of South Carolina Press edition of 1972, contains a complete English translation of the sophist material collected in the critical edition of Diels-Krantz, as well as Euthydemus and a completely re-edited Antiphon. ... Read more

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Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael Gagarin sets close readings of individual works within a wider discussion of the fifth-century Athenian intellectual climate and the philosophical ferment known as the sophistic movement. This enables him to demonstrate the overall coherence of Antiphon's interests and writings and to show how he was a pivotal figure between the sophists and the Attic orators of the fourth century. In addition, Gagarin's argument allows us to reassess the work of the sophists as a whole, so that they can now be seen as primarily interested in logos (speech, argument) and as precursors of fourth-century rhetoric, rather than in their usual role as foils for Plato. ... Read more

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Chapters: Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, Prodicus, Thrasymachus, Diagoras of Melos, Antiphon, Callicles, Theodorus of Byzantium, Corax of Syracuse, Bryson of Heraclea, Tisias, Stesimbrotos of Thasos, Euenus, Lycophron. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gorgias (Greek: ) "the Nihilist", Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists he was an itinerant, practicing in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. A special feature of his displays was to invite miscellaneous questions from the audience and give impromptu replies." His chief claim to recognition resides in the fact that he transplanted rhetoric from his native Sicily to Attica, and contributed to the diffusion of the Attic dialect as the language of literary prose. Gorgias originated from Leontini, a Greek colony in Sicily, and what is often called the home of Greek rhetoric. It is known that Gorgias had a father named Charmantides and two siblings a brother named Herodicus and a sister who dedicated a statue to Gorgias in Delphi (McComiskey 6-7). He was already about sixty when in 427 he was sent to Athens by his fellow-citizens at the head of an embassy to ask for Athenian protection against the aggression of the Syracusans. He subsequently settled in Athens, probably due to the enormous popularity of his style of oratory and the profits made from his performances and rhetoric classes. According to Aristotle, his stu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=98394 ... Read more