Naming the unknown –– Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler
What we have here is The Ambiguous Case of Antigone, where she is “unintelligible and unthinkable”. So… why do people even bother trying to understand her? Here’s why I think so many people have attempted to define and classify Antigone … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →