Plato's "Sophist" Revisited /

Plato's "Sophist" Revisited / / ed. by Beatriz Bossi, Thomas M. Robinson.

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This book consists of a selection of papers which throw new light on old problems in one of Plato's most difficult dialogues. The papers included fall into three broad categories: a) those dealing directly with the ostensible aim of the dialogue, the various definitions of a sophist from differ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Ambuel, David,
Bernabé, Alberto,
Bordoy, Francesc Casadesús,
Bossi, Beatriz,
Cordero, Néstor-Luis,
Dorter, Kenneth,
Fronterotta, Francesco,
Garay, Jesús de,
Hülsz, Enrique,
Mesquita, Antonio Pedro,
Monserrat Molas, Josep,
Narcy, Michel,
O’Brien, Denis,
Palumbo, Lidia,
Robinson, Thomas M.,
Sandoval Villarroel, Pablo,
Solana, José,
HerausgeberIn:
Bossi, Beatriz,
Robinson, Thomas M.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. Defining Sophistry
  • Protagoras and the Definition of ‘Sophist’ in the Sophist
  • Why is it so Difficult to Catch a Sophist? Pl. Sph. 218d3 and 261a5
  • Plato’s Enquiry concerning the Sophist as a Way towards ‘Defining’ Philosophy
  • The Sixth Definition (Sophist 226a–231c): Transposition of Religious Language
  • Remarks on the First Five Definitions of the Sophist (Soph. 221c–235a)
  • Socrates and ‘Noble’ Sophistry (Sophist 226b–231c)
  • The Method of Division in the Sophist: Plato’s Second Deuteros Plous
  • II. Parricide: Threat or Reality?
  • Plato’s Ionian Muses: Sophist 242 d–e
  • Does Plato refute Parmenides?
  • Back to the Point: Plato and Parmenides – Genuine Parricide?
  • Plato’s Eleaticism in the Sophist: The Doctrine of Non-Being
  • The relativization of “separation” (khorismos) in the Sophist
  • III. Mimesis, Image and Logos
  • Theaetetus sits – Theaetetus flies. Ontology, predication and truth in Plato’s Sophist (263a–d)
  • Difference and Negation: Plato’s Sophist in Proclus
  • Difference in Kind: Observations on the Distinction of the Megista Gene
  • Mimesis in the Sophist
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Subject Index

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