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      PlatoEuthydemus
Can the Euthydemus illuminate the philosophical significance of sophistry? In answering this question, I ask why the most direct and sustained confrontations between Socrates and the two brothers should all center on time and the soul.... more
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      PlatoSoul (Humanities)Plato and PlatonismAncient Greek History
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      PlatoAncient Greek PhilosophySophistsEuthydemus
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      ClassicsPlatoAristotleClassical rhetoric
* Si le génie littéraire et philosophique de Platon s'exprime dans l'ensemble de son oeuvre, il faut constater que certains dialogues se distinguent par la trace qu'ils laissent dans l'esprit du lecteur et par la puissance de l'atmosphère... more
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      PhilosophyPlatoMoral PhilosophyPlato and Platonism
Ingresar en la lectura de un texto antiguo implica la posibilidad de vislumbrar el complejo tejido de relaciones que constituyeron ese imaginario fundante. Cuando el texto en cuestión pertenece a la obra de Platón, es preciso prepararse... more
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      Ancient HistoryPhilosophyEthicsGreek Literature
In der Reihe der Platonausgaben in deutscher Übersetzung mit in der Regel umfangreichem Kommentar 1 liegt mit diesem Band ein besonders interes-santer Text vor. Denn der Euthydemos ist einer derjenigen Dialoge, die sich aufgrund ihrer... more
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      PlatoEuthydemusPlatonübersetzung
In the following text I will argue that the dialogue shows the essential connection between (i) sophistry, (ii) right usage of language, particularly in the case of names and naming, and finally (iii) politics, and more precisely the... more
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      PlatoAncient social & political philosophySophistsEuthydemus
Sur le mode du rite initiatique, le discours de Diotime présente les étapes qui mènent à la contemplation de la Forme unique (monoeides) du Beau en soi (auto to kalon). À la suite de ce grand discours de la transcendance, un des premiers... more
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      History of IdeasPlatoSocratesMysteries (Greek Religion)
Explicates the relation of the character Axiochus to Socrates's phrase "chasing after larks" in Plato's Euthydemus.
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      Political PhilosophyPlatoLeo StraussAxiochus
In this paper, we discuss two protreptics in the Corpus Platonicum, the Euthydemus and the Clitophon, in a wider literary and institutional framework. A
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      PlatoIsocratesEpideictic RhetoricPlato's Clitophon
We question the widespread opinion that ‘protreptic’ was a traditional element of sophistic display. We analyze various form of sophistic displays mentioned in the Corpus Platonicum, and underline that the term 'protreptic' never occurs... more
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      PlatoClitophonProtrepticEuthydemus
Euthydemus is included neither in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by Diels–Kranz nor in Sofisti. Testimonianze e frammenti by Untersteiner nor in Early Greek Philosophy by Laks and Most. Likewise, the great twentieth century works on the... more
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      OntologyPlatoSophistsGorgias
This paper is a draft-in-progress. It addresses the Socrates of Plato, not the historical Socrates. Reader Forewarned: I do not treat Socrates with considerable charity, and am actually quite critical of him. I argue that Socrates'... more
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      PlatoWisdomSocratesAncient Philosophy
I argue that the fallacy concerning false speech (283e-284c) in Plato’s 'Euthydemus' does not entail conflation of the alleged ‘existential’ and ‘veridical’ senses of ‘einai’ (‘to be’), but instead confusion regarding predicative... more
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      PlatoAncient Greek PhilosophyPlato's SophistEuthydemus
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      Plato's ClitophonProtrepticEuthydemusAristotle's Protrepticus
Socrates argues that knowing oneself is not “knowing your powers” (as is usually thought) but both committing yourself to beliefs you can accept, and becoming just and therefore master of yourself. [Forthcoming]
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      SocratesSelf-KnowledgeXenophonXenophon's Socratic Writings
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      PlatoAncient PhilosophyAncient Greek PhilosophySophists