Re: Fun with Sophists

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From: Edward Green
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:08

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janine.thallon@btopenworld.com (Janine Thallon) wrote in message news:<74d81390.0307141504.3d67a85e@posting.google.com>...

> Hi! There are actually so many anient Greek philosophical schools
> which have left us labels describing their most characteristic traits
> that it would be dificult/futile for me to pursue this search!  No
> doubt you will have received numerous messages to this effect by now!
> However, just in case, how about Pendantry,Fatalism, Hedonism to begin
> with?  They all derive from Greek!  

Ah ... hedonism!  So we have the hedonistic dionysian epicures on the
one side, and the cynical stoical fatalists on the other -- and of
course the peripatetic pedants in the middle, spinning sophistry.

> (Please excuse my barging in on yr
> conversation, I admit that I've never done this before)

You are encouraged to continue.  May one ask if you have been enticed
from alt.usage.english, or from humanities.classics?  A little bird
tells me not from sci.physics.

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From: nulldev00@aol.com (Edward Green)
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Subject: Re: Fun with Sophists
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