“Who's afraid of the sophists? Against Ethical Correctness”

Barbara Cassin (1)

1 CRPA - Centre de recherches sur la pensée antique : CENTRE LEON ROBIN

What is sophistics ? What are the genuine reasons of philosophers'hostility, from Plato and Aristotle to Habermas and Badiou ? This text offers a new definition of sophistics as critique of mainstream ontology and a description of the efficiency of such a critical view, through a comprehensive explanation of the primitive scenery between Parmenides'Poem and Gorgias' Treatise of Non-being, and Aristotle's settlement of the principle of non-contradiction in book Gamma of Metaphysics.

Mots clés: sophists; philosophers'hostility; ontology; Parmenide; Gorgias; Aristotle; principle of non-contradiction

Mots clés: sophistes; hostilité des philosophes; ontologie; Aristote; principe de non-contradiction

Domaines: Philosophie

Barbara Cassin. “Who's afraid of the sophists? Against Ethical Correctness”. Hypatia, 2000, 15 (4), pp.97-120. ⟨halshs-00281328⟩