Extracts from Seth Benardete's discussion of the theoretical high point of Plato's Sophist, with reference to the Strauss-Kojeve debate concerning the "community of ideas" (Strauss and Benardete had discussed the Sophist in depth in the... more
Extracts from Seth Benardete's discussion of the theoretical high point of Plato's Sophist, with reference to the Strauss-Kojeve debate concerning the "community of ideas" (Strauss and Benardete had discussed the Sophist in depth in the 1960s), and with the addition of informal notes from Christopher Bruell's 2008 course on the Sophist.