Open AccessPairs of Arguments (Dissoi logoi)
Author(s) -
Xenia Kovalchuk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
respublica literaria
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.47850/rl.2020.1.2.70-78
Subject(s) - argumentation theory , philosophy , position (finance) , epistemology , literature , art , finance , economics
The paper is a Russian translation of the first three chapters of a sophistic text, conventionally called the Pairs of Arguments (Dissoi logoi). Transmitted as an appendix to the works of Sextus Empiricus, this collection of short treaties seeks to show the sophistic (Protagorean) way of argumentation. They address such opposite notions as bad and good, ugly and beautiful, unjust and just, and explore the possibilities of arguing pro and contra a given position.