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Sophist — Plato

Sophist

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 127 pages

Sophist is a late Platonic dialogue in which an Eleatic visitor, with Socrates present, seeks a definition of the sophist through methodical division. The conversation widens into an inquiry into being, not-being, and falsehood, asking how images and errors are possible. It rewards listening for its rigorous dialectic and its effort to distinguish philosophy from mere rhetoric.

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SOPHIST
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to
diminish as the metaphysical interest of them increases
(compare
Introd.
to
the
Philebus).
There
are
no
descriptions of time, place or persons, in the Sophist and
Statesman, but we are plunged at once into philosophical
discussions; the poetical charm has disappeared, and those
who have no taste for abstruse metaphysics will greatly
prefer the earlier dialogues to the later ones. Plato is

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Contents

  1. SOPHIST
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. SOPHIST
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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