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| Hippias of Elis: Sophist, end of the 5th century BC. Hippias held laws for a tyrannical rape of men. Hippias was represented ironically in two dialogues by Socrates. (See Der kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Dictionary of Arguments. | |||
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B. H. F. Taureck on Hippias of Elis - Dictionary of Arguments
I 17 Hippias of Elis/Sophist/Taureck: (after 470) he was discovered in the 20th century as a philosopher, until then he was only known as a mathematician. Hippias of Elis belonged to the second generation of the Sophists. He carried out political missions to Athens and Syracuse. Thesis: He supports democracy. Ideal: education in the arts. Cf. >Ancient Philosophy, >Sophists. Additional literature on the sophists: W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016. Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005. Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972. John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. "Vs" indicates differences in content, not necessarily the chronological progression of a controversy. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Taureck I B. H.F. Taureck Die Sophisten Hamburg 1995 |
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