The Muses and Philosophy Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991]

The philosopher, guard-dog of the truth and of the desire for truth, is committed toalētheia. The sophist, this wolf for as long as there have been philosophers, is committed to thepseudos.Pseudosnames, from its origin, and indissolubly, the “false” and the “lie” – the “falsehood,” therefore, of one...

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Published inContemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics p. 13
Main Author Barbara Cassin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh University Press 31.03.2017
Subjects
Ancient philosophy
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Argumentation
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Communications
Concept of being
Cultural anthropology
Discourse
Folklore
Folkloristics
Grammar
Grammatical constructions
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of philosophy
Language
Lexicology
Linguistics
Literary genres
Literature
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Muses
Mythological creatures
Ontological properties
Ontology
Parts of speech
Philosophical object
Philosophy
Platonism
Poetry
Predicates
Refutation
Rhetoric
Schools of rhetoric
Social sciences
Sophistry
Verbs
Words
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Summary:The philosopher, guard-dog of the truth and of the desire for truth, is committed toalētheia. The sophist, this wolf for as long as there have been philosophers, is committed to thepseudos.Pseudosnames, from its origin, and indissolubly, the “false” and the “lie” – the “falsehood,” therefore, of one who deceives and/or deceives himself. It is the ethico-logical concept par excellence. TheSophistof Plato explicitly marks this double bind, which joins the sophistic andpseudosin the eyes of philosophy: the sophist is an imitation, a feral counterfeit of the philosopher,² because the sophist chooses the domain of
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