Open AccessTheodore Metochites On Philosophers’ Irony
Author(s) -
Mikołaj Domaradzki
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
peitho
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-9004
pISSN - 2082-7539
DOI - 10.14746/pea.2014.1.14
Subject(s) - irony , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , epistemology , translation (biology) , literature , linguistics , art , genetics , medicine , gene , biology , messenger rna
The present article offers the first Polish translation of Theodore Metochites’ important essay on the philosophers’ use and abuse of irony. The translation is preceded by an introduction which briefly presents the author of the Miscellanea philosophica et historica, upon which it reconstructs the argument of essay 8 and provides an assessment of Metochites’ account of irony.