Hippias : Major & Minor are two of Plato’s shorter dialogues, depicting Hippias of Elis, a Sophist philosopher (c.5th cent. BC). Hippias Minor deals with “wrong-doing is involuntary”; Hippias Major discusses the question “What is the fine (or beautiful)?”
... and geometry, also the committal to memory and power of recitation of the poems of Homer. It is said that not only did Socrates exist at the same time as Parmenides, 20 Protagoras, 21 Gorgias, Hippias, 27 Prodicus, 23 and Thracymachus 24 in Greece but that there are accounts by Plato of his meetings with them. He is said to have enjoyed the company of many distinguished men of his times;... given by others and rarely built any to Page 18 replace them. He often avoided answering a direct question by replying with another question as happened with Critias,28 a student. Hippias, it is said, raged at Socrates and refused to speak another word till Socrates defined justice himself! To this exasperated outcry, Socratesʼ calm response was that he was, like his mother, but a midwife... 21. Protagoras of Abdera (490-420 BC), though a contemporary of Socrates, was considered a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was one of several fifth century Greek thinkers (including Gorgias, Hippias, and Prodicus) collectively known as the Older Sophists, a group of travelling teachers or intellectuals who were experts in rhetoric (the science of oratory) and related subjects. Protagoras is known ...
... Wilson —But no one could possibly think that. Keshav —I think that the soul of Ithacan Ulysses has not yet completed the cycle of his transmigrations, nor would I wrong the author of the Hippias by ignoring his conclusions. Or why go to dead men for an example? The mould has not fallen on the musical lips of the Irish Plato nor is Dorian Gray forgotten on the hundred tongues of Rumour. ...
... there is no truth in that either. I wish that there were, because I think that it is a fine thing if a man is qualified to teach, as in the case of Gorgias of Leontini,5 and Prodicus of Ceos 6 and Hippias of Elis 7 . Each one of these is perfectly capable of going into any city and actually persuading the young men to leave the company of their fellow-citizens, with any of whom they can associate for... of synonyms and distinctions of meaning; his style is parodied in the Protagoras. He was a distinguished teacher and one of the best of the Sophists in spite of his pedantry. 7 Hippias of Elis was supposed to know something about everything, including the useful arts. It is unlikely that his knowledge was profound. 8 Callias is the host in the Protagoras. He ...
... there is no truth in that either. I wish that there were, because I think that it is a fine thing if a man is qualified to teach, as in the case of Gorgias of Leontini, 5 and Prodicus of Ceos 6 and Hippias of Elis 7 . Each one of these is perfectly capable of going into any city and actually persuading the young men to leave the company of their fellow-citizens, with any of whom they can associate for... the study of synonyms and distinctions of meaning; his style is parodied in the Protagoras. He was a distinguished teacher and one of the best of the Sophists in spite of his pedantry. Hippias of Elis was supposed to know something about everything, including the useful arts. ; It is unlikely that his knowledge was profound. Callias is the host in the Protagoras. He was ...
... mythological to the rational age in ancient Greece took place at the time of Pericles, in Greece’s Golden Age. The instruments of this transition were the sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicos, Hippias, Critias, and others – who were much more influential than is generally supposed. “Truly speaking, one does not understand anything of the century of Pericles and ‘the Greek miracle’ if one does not ...
... little of it. But none the less the general impression left is that of a conversation. The following is a list of dialogues written by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Hippias Minor, Ion, Protagoras, Meno, Gorgias, Phaedo, Menexenus, Euthydemus, Cratylus, Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, Theaetetus, Critias, Philebus, Timaeus, Laws. ...
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