The Price of Progress. To the Question of the Benefits of Writing
The article analyzes an episode of the Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus about the harm of writing to human cognitive abilities. Relying on a number of ancient sources, the author shows that the Greeks of the classical and earlier periods gave priority to the oral word over the written one, primarily in the...
Main Author: | Oleg А. Matveychev |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law
2023-10-01
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Series: | Антиномии |
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Online Access: | http://yearbook.uran.ru/images/files/Ant_3_23_7_19.pdf |
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