FILOSOFIA E SCIENZE NELL’ANTICHITA’

Knowledge of one of the most important dialectical nodes of the classical age, namely the debate around Sophistic as ethical, political but also cognitive proposal. The course will examine a case of this querelle, i.e. Gorgias and the criticism addressed to him by Plato.

Lectures with reading of texts.

Presentation of Sophistic as a cultural phenomenon

A representative case of Sophistic: Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen

Plato’s critique of Gorgian rhetoric

• M. Bonazzi, I Sofisti, Carocci editore, Roma 2010 (pp. 11-165);
• Gorgia, Encomio di Elena, testo critico, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di F. Donadi, Roma 1982 (o altra edizione con testo greco a fronte); pp. 70.
• F. Ferrari, Introduzione a Platone, Bologna 2018, Il Mulino, pp. 198.
• Platone, Gorgia, trad. e introd. di F. Adorno, Editori Laterza (Testi a fronte), Roma-Bari 1997 (pp. V-XXXVII e 1-211).

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