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Almost everything of real value in the Western world has its origin in ancient Greece. This applies among other things to philosophy as the systematic search for ultimate truth. It also holds good for rhetoric as the consciously practiced skill of speaking and writing well and convincingly. It was also in Greece that the conflict between philosophy and rhetoric flared up for the first time and in such a way as to have determined the whole of European thought and Western culture.
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© 1976 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Ijsseling, S. (1976). Plato and the Sophists. In: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1037-5_2
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