GORGIAS’ “ON NOT-BEING OR ON NATURE” IN DE MELISSO XENOPHANE GORGIA, V–VI: ITS FORMAL STRUCTURE AND A TRANSLATION FROM THE GREEK INTO RUSSIAN Cover Image

ТРАКТАТ О НЕ-СУЩЕМ, ИЛИ О ПРИРОДЕ ГОРГИЯ В DE MELISSO XENOPHANE GORGIA, V–VI:
GORGIAS’ “ON NOT-BEING OR ON NATURE” IN DE MELISSO XENOPHANE GORGIA, V–VI: ITS FORMAL STRUCTURE AND A TRANSLATION FROM THE GREEK INTO RUSSIAN

Author(s): Marina Wolf
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: sophistic, the Sophists, Gorgias, “On Not-Being or On Nature”, argumentation.

Summary/Abstract: The Pseudo-Aristotelian (Anonymous) De Melisso Xenophane Gorgia, along with the well-known evidence of Sextus Empiricus (Adv. Math. 7.65–87), interests scholars as a major evidence about Gorgias’s treatise “On Not-Being or On Nature”. The paper (1) offers the first Russian translation of the section of the De Melisso Xenophane Gorgia, V–VI, which concerns Gorgias; and (2) analyses the sources and the formal structure of the argument in the treatise.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 198-216
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian