The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias’ Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen

Lampe, Kurt

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“…Knudsen's paper examines Gorgias 'competitive engagement' with the poetic-mythical account of Palamedes. On this issue, see also LAMPE (2020), who also concentrates on the broader epistemological background of Gorgias' reception of the poetic heritage. 22 On Palamedes ἔθος see BIESECKER-MAST (1994: 153); SPATHRAS (2001: 400, n. 17); KNUDSEN (2012: 38); LAMPE (2020: 120).…”

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“…59 Thus, as with the Palamedes, we not only find argumentative τόποι adapted for the case, but also such experiments as the reverse-εἰκός argument, pioneered by Tisias and Corax, which does not seem to have been used much in court. 60 What is more pertinent for 55 The authorship, and hence the date, of the Tetralogies has been subject to controversy with some arguing that it is the work of Antiphon (e.g. GAGARIN, 1997;2002); others that it is a much later work (e.g.…”

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“…59 GAGARIN (2002: 112-115). 60 GAGARIN (1994: 52). the discussion at hand, however, is the fact that the author addresses directly the relationship of εἰκός and testimony.…”

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The Hypothetical Witness in Gorgias and Antiphon

Gatt

2021

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The paper below focuses on the shadowy figure of the hypothetical witness found in two mock-forensic works of the late 5th century: Gorgias’ Defence of Palamedes and Antiphon’s First Tetralogy. I argue that these witnesses, who only exist within the εἰκός arguments found in these speeches, are consistently characterized in impersonal ways, as individuals with knowledge pertinent to the resolution of the case. The issue of their will is also broached, particularly in last rebuttal speech of the First Tetralogy. Though such witnesses, being logical figments, could never appear in court, their characterization sheds important light on the ancient Greek notion of ‘witnessing’. Indeed, the very ability of Gorgias and Antiphon to deploy such arguments shows that witnessing was, at least in this cases, not thought to be tied to the witness’s prestige or character which remain entirely undefined. Rather, their characterization of a ‘witness’ as an individual who knows and who is motivated to testify implies that these were the features thought to fundamental to witnesses, whether real or fictive.

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The Hypothetical Witness in Gorgias and Antiphon

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“… 44 Cornford (1939) 34; Owen (1960) 15; Furth (1968) 121; Graeser (1977a) 148; (1977b) 362–65; Nussbaum (1979) 70; Gallop (1984) 12; Kraus (1987) 73; this claim is less widespread today, but see for example Lampe (2020) 115 (‘being sets the parameters for meaningful thinking and speaking’). This view has not often been subject to direct criticism, but see Mason (1988) 151–52 and Palmer (2009) 76–82, who (in different ways) reject it as an imposition of 20th-century preoccupations about meaningfulness and meaninglessness. …”

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Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

Tor

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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As early as Plato and as recently as current scholarship, readers of Parmenides have diagnosed tensions of one sort or another between his ontological views and the language through which he expresses those views. In the first instance, this article examines earlier claims for such tensions and argues that they are predicated on problematic assumptions concerning Parmenides’ ontological commitments or his strictures regarding the use of language. In the second instance, however, it argues that Parmenides’ Way of Reality does indeed confront us with tensions between language and doctrine, that these tensions are more pointed and sustained than scholars generally recognize and that they can be identified independently of specific or determinate elaboration of Parmenides’ precise ontological views. This analysis discloses a reflective preoccupation with, and a consistent attitude towards, the scope and limitations of human language. Parmenides persistently evinces his awareness that his description of what-is proceeds through expressive measures that are imported with difficulty from a different domain and, consequently, are limited, indirect and often figurative. The article closes by pointing to a meaningful (but partial) affinity between Parmenides and those Platonists who placed their own ultimate philosophical and ontological principle beyond the expressive reach of words.

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The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias’ Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen

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