Gorgias on Knowledge and the Powerlessness of <i>Logos</i>
In Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen and Defense of Palamedes, the orator draws attention to two important limitations of speech’s power that concern its different relationships to belief vs. knowledge. First, logos has the capacity to affect and change a person’s beliefs, but it is powerless to change or...
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MDPI AG
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/1/9 |