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Alciphron logo #10101) Ancient Greek writer 2) Christian apologetic work
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Alciphron logo #21000 Alciphron (Ἀλκίφρων) was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever. ==Works== We possess under the name of Alciphron 116 fictional letters, in 3 books, the object of which is to delineate the characters of cer...
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Alciphron logo #21000[book] Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by the 18th-century Irish philosopher George Berkeley wherein Berkeley combated the arguments of free-thinkers such as Mandeville and Shaftesbury against the Christian religion. It was first published in 1732. The dialogue is primarily between four characters, the free-...
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Alciphron logo #21003rhetorician who wrote a collection of fictitious letters, a form of literature popular in his day. About 120 letters have survived. The background of ...
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Alciphron logo #20688Greek writer. His prose epistles consist of four groups: letters from fishermen, farmers, parasites, and courtesans. The scenes are set in Athens in the 4th century BC and the style is vivid and...
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