Plato links pleasure with illusion, and this link explains his rejection of the view that all desires are rational desires for the good. The Protagoras and Gorgias show connections between pleasure and illusion; the Republic develops these into a psychological theory. One part of the soul is not only prone to illusions, but also incapable of the kind of reasoning that can dispel them. Pleasure ...

The paper deals with an investigation and modeling of dialogue and dialogue transactions. An ontological model of human dialogue interaction, underlying follow-up reasoning, is obtained on the basis of analysis of human-human dialogues and illustrated by one of Plato’s dialogue Protagoras. In the sequel, attention is focused on one type of human-human dialogues, called erotetic dialogue and on ...

Denne artikel forfølger Maurice Charlands antagelse om, at modellen for konstitutiv retorik kan spores tilbage til sofisterne. Gennem en fremstilling af de væsentligste begrebslige og ontologiske sammenhænge mellem logos, tale, eris, strid, er hensigten vise, hvordan talen om fred konflikt underordnet definition som den kunst konstituere sag. Artiklen henviser Hesiod, Heraklit, Protagoras, Gorg...