Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón

The dialectic exhibited in Plato’s dialogues assumes different characters throughout the corpus. Nevertheless, it remains always linked to refutation. In this way, like dialectic, refutation assumes different characteristics. The aim of this work is to show how refutation takes a key role in the So...

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Main Author: Pilar Spangenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2020-08-01
Series:Plato
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8546
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spelling doaj-c41abb8a9337406aacbcd39c1bb299ae2020-11-25T02:48:09ZengCoimbra University PressPlato2079-75672183-41052020-08-012010.14195/2183-4105_20_1Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de PlatónPilar Spangenberg0Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Unviersidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET The dialectic exhibited in Plato’s dialogues assumes different characters throughout the corpus. Nevertheless, it remains always linked to refutation. In this way, like dialectic, refutation assumes different characteristics. The aim of this work is to show how refutation takes a key role in the Sophist, even with unique features: far from facing an opponent of flesh and blood as in Socratic dialogues, the Eleatic Stranger faces hypotheses, and instead of examining consistence within the opponent’s beliefs, he draws upon a radical mechanism that focuses in the conditions of possibility of the (opponent’s) discourse. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8546Dialectic in Sophistἔλεγχοςexamination of opposites
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Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
Plato
Dialectic in Sophist
ἔλεγχος
examination of opposites
author_facet Pilar Spangenberg
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title Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
title_short Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
title_full Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
title_fullStr Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
title_full_unstemmed Dialéctica y refutación en el Sofista de Platón
title_sort dialéctica y refutación en el sofista de platón
publisher Coimbra University Press
series Plato
issn 2079-7567
2183-4105
publishDate 2020-08-01
description The dialectic exhibited in Plato’s dialogues assumes different characters throughout the corpus. Nevertheless, it remains always linked to refutation. In this way, like dialectic, refutation assumes different characteristics. The aim of this work is to show how refutation takes a key role in the Sophist, even with unique features: far from facing an opponent of flesh and blood as in Socratic dialogues, the Eleatic Stranger faces hypotheses, and instead of examining consistence within the opponent’s beliefs, he draws upon a radical mechanism that focuses in the conditions of possibility of the (opponent’s) discourse.
topic Dialectic in Sophist
ἔλεγχος
examination of opposites
url https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8546
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