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Fun with Sophists
[nq:2] You bastard. ;-)[/nq]
[nq:1]Heh! Gorgias was an ancient Greek sophist that peddled debating skills for money. His thing was that it didn't matter ... it took a bit of Googling before I found the reference to casually drop. Couldn't have happened in real-time conversation.[/nq]
Gorgias: patron saint of attornies and the newsgroups! That's gorgeous. He must have been skilled in self-defense or running: he had no CRT to hide behind.
How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name as labels describing their most characteristic traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others? Lesbianism, I guess, if that's a school of philosophy.
[nq:1]Heh! Gorgias was an ancient Greek sophist that peddled debating skills for money. His thing was that it didn't matter ... it took a bit of Googling before I found the reference to casually drop. Couldn't have happened in real-time conversation.[/nq]
Gorgias: patron saint of attornies and the newsgroups! That's gorgeous. He must have been skilled in self-defense or running: he had no CRT to hide behind.
How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name as labels describing their most characteristic traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others? Lesbianism, I guess, if that's a school of philosophy.
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[nq:1]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name as labels describing their most characteristic traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. [/nq] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ...
- [nq:1]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name as labels describing their most characteristic traits?
- You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind.
- [/nq] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ...
- and of course "academic".
- --Odysseus
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[nq:1]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name as labels describing their most characteristic traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others?[/nq]
There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".
--Odysseus
There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".
--Odysseus
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In article (Email Removed), odysseus1479-at@yahoo- dot.ca says...
[nq:2]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their ... traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others?[/nq]
[nq:1]There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic". Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adje
[nq:2]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their ... traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others?[/nq]
[nq:1]There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic". Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adje
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In article (Email Removed), (Email Removed) says...
[nq:1]In article (Email Removed), odysseus1479-at@yahoo- dot.ca says...[/nq]
[nq:2] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
It left one only slightly less common
[nq:1]In article (Email Removed), odysseus1479-at@yahoo- dot.ca says...[/nq]
[nq:2] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
It left one only slightly less common
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[nq:1]In article (Email Removed), odysseus1479-at@yahoo- dot.ca says...[/nq]
[nq:2] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as a type of philosophical
[nq:2] There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as a type of philosophical
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(13 Jul 2003) in news:(Email Removed) / alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
Other than "peripatetic," "Aristotelian," and "lyceum," of course. The French "lycee" is common in that language.
-- Martin Ambuhl Returning soon to the Fourth Largest City in America
[nq:1]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
Other than "peripatetic," "Aristotelian," and "lyceum," of course. The French "lycee" is common in that language.
-- Martin Ambuhl Returning soon to the Fourth Largest City in America
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[nq:2]In article (Email Removed), odysseus1479-at@yahoo- dot.ca says... Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
[nq:1]You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as a type of philosophical doctrine though.[/nq]
So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a sleep-peripateticist?
[nq:1]You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as a type of philosophical doctrine though.[/nq]
So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a sleep-peripateticist?
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In article (Email Removed), (Email Removed) says...
[nq:1] (13 Jul 2003) in news:(Email Removed) / alt.usage.english:[/nq]
[nq:2]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
[nq:1]Other than "peripatetic," "Aristotelian," and "lyceum," of course. The French "lycee" is common in that language. None of these are particularly com
[nq:1] (13 Jul 2003) in news:(Email Removed) / alt.usage.english:[/nq]
[nq:2]Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun or adjective as a residue.[/nq]
[nq:1]Other than "peripatetic," "Aristotelian," and "lyceum," of course. The French "lycee" is common in that language. None of these are particularly com
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[nq:2]How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their ... traits? You suggest sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others?[/nq]
[nq:1]There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
The cynic and the epicure, of course! Thanks.
[nq:1]There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... and of course "academic".[/nq]
The cynic and the epicure, of course! Thanks.
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[nq:2]You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as a type of philosophical doctrine though.[/nq]
[nq:1]So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a sleep-peripateticist?[/nq]
Why not? At any rate, the school left a really common word in French (jokingly repeated in English in the Fifties, if I remember well). Péripatéticienne = hooker.
[nq:1]So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a sleep-peripateticist?[/nq]
Why not? At any rate, the school left a really common word in French (jokingly repeated in English in the Fifties, if I remember well). Péripatéticienne = hooker.
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[nq:1]The cynic and the epicure, of course! Thanks.[/nq]
Pity, though, that both terms now mean something quite different from their original meanings.
Roy
Pity, though, that both terms now mean something quite different from their original meanings.
Roy
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