Traditionally thought sophistical received

glances. Plato's challenge has established a

Deep negative term and permanent orientation so
in the colloquial language of much of modern languages
'Being a sophist' means being a trickster with air
intellectuals. It is a clear and extreme case of success
You can have a category supported by a strategy
powerful argument. The category is 'sophist' and strategy
argumentative, applying the search to all opponents
theorists failing to comply with the proposed radicalism
ontological posed by Plato's theory of Ideas. The
Original dichotomy posed by Plato between philosophy and sophistry,
which was the basis of this strategy, it reappears with full
force when it comes to study thesis as Protagoras or
Gorgias. In this sense, the opposition is directed to report
they used these characters were not considered wise by
the simple reason that Sophia is not something that can be preached
Men, who fits them just philo-sophia, ie he
attempt to capture transcendent realities and founding
regarding the perceptible world. With this basic premise
overshadows the potential quality of the arguments "sophistic" which
They would be irretrievably tainted with an insurmountable hubris. At
Gorgias case, this objection is, if you will, more complex,
his theories attacking the foundation of the notion of same knowledge

traditional, because altering the relationship between speech and

content and, therefore, their true condition.
In this sense, Gorgias has gone down in history as a
colorful and radical character who poses extreme nihilistic thesis
contesting every opportunity to apply knowledge
founded. This is true, but notice other details
context of your thesis statement of the scope of the proposal
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They blur. We begin, then, by a detour to give
account of previous theoretical conditions against which Gorgias
reacts (point 1) and then stop at the details of
gorgiana building philosophy that has two moments,
one pars destruens oriented challenge to the possibility of
truth as adequacy of thought to reality that
manifested in the Treaty unless, (item 2) and pars
construens posed the notion of truth as coherence
of statements, such as (dot appears in the Commendation of Helena,
3). This will allow us to assess to what extent is still in Gorgias
proposed a basic intuition ever present as a danger
since the beginning of this reflection as Greek and pressing
problem today.
1. The theoretical background of the task gorgiana
The first data, which may seem obvious and even generic,

It should not be overlooked: in Greece there is no textual corpus

unquestioned that guarantees the truth of his statements nor there
nothing that makes us think that the texts of Homer, compounds
by a poet and versioned at will by the later tradition,
they can be even dimly compared with what happens in
other traditions that are based on sacred texts. No 'word
Zeus' there is a unifying dogma as a criterium
indubitable to decide on other sentences faced by the
human experience.
To this we can add a second data, much more
concrete. Gorgias's work, especially with regard to
they call their "constructive part" the Commendation of Helena, is
enroll in a tradition that works testimonials abound
They take sides in mythical or historical races. To cite only
some, we can mention that in Antstenes are
speeches of Ajax and Odysseus, who return from perspectives
opposite the episode of Achilles weapons.
retain two speeches on Palamedes, one defense
written by Gorgias
plus references to works of the three tragic adopters
theme.