Plato's Sophist : a translation with a detailed account of its theses and arguments /
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| Author / Creator: | Duerlinger, James. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : P. Lang, c2005. |
| Description: | xiii, 154 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New perspectives in philosophical scholarship ; v. 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5769474 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Why Plato Composed the Sophist
- Part 1. How to Use Dialectic to Define the Nature of a Sophist (216A-236C, 264D-268D)
- The introductory conversation
- The definition of the nature of a sophist and the theory of forms
- Plato on the method of collection and division
- Plato on dialectic
- The methods of dialectic
- The definition of an angler (218E-221B)
- The first five definitions of a sophist (221C-226A)
- The sixth definition of a sophist (226A-231B)
- The final definition of a sophist (232B-236D, 264D-268D)
- Part 2. How to Use Dialectic to Answer a Sophist's Objection to Part of the Final Definition (236C-264D)
- The problem of classifying a sophist (236D-237A)
- Plato's own theory of how and why we can think and speak of a non-being
- The difficulties Parmenides believes we face if we think or speak of a non-being (237b-239b)
- The philosopher's account of how these difficulties arise for those who say or think that images are beings (239C-240C)
- The philosopher's account of how these difficulties arise for those who say or think that falsehoods are beings (239C-241C)
- The problem of the otherness of being (242B-250D)
- The defense and elaboration of Plato's view of the one and the many (250E-254B)
- The joint illumination of being and non-being (254B-259C)
- The proof that falsehoods are beings (259D-264D)
- Translation
- Bibliography