DIFFERENTLY SOPHISTS:
DOUBLE BREASTED SUITS AND TANK TOP T-SHIRTS
EDITORIAL
(translated by Silvia Benso)
For this issue of SpazioFilosofico, we have chosen the theme “Sophists” because when it comes to marking the urgency of a rethinking, such a theme seems to us to be more precise than the subject “Truth.” Leggi tutto »
Sophistic discourse is the paradigm of a form of discourse that does things with words. It is not a “performative” in Austin’s sense; rather, it is really a discourse that makes, transforms, or creates the world. Leggi tutto »
Political constructivists (such as John Rawls) and pluralists (such as Bernard Williams) refrain from using truth in political matters and moral disagreements. They agree with relativists on the “polemical conception of truth,” which takes moral truths to enjoy only a local kind of normativity. Leggi tutto »
This paper deals with the concept of eikos, traditionally translated as “probability” or “likelihood.” The aim is to show the complexity and the theoretical value of this notion and, more specifically, the crucial role it plays in the Platonic attack against the Sophists. Leggi tutto »
È certamente un indizio significativo che dei maggiori sofisti ci sia pervenuto solo un numero assai limitato di frammenti, per numero e qualità assai inferiore alle testimonianze che li riguardano. Leggi tutto »
The essay proposes an excercise of recapitulation of some originary philosophical structures in which the theoretical commitmens that are made and the internal boundaries that are marked have relevant consequences in terms of the destiny of the truth. Leggi tutto »
Truth is not served on silver plates by obliging servants. One must look for the truth each time anew. Truth is the result of procedures and rules Leggi tutto »