Download or read book A Commentary on Plato s Euthydemus written by R. S. W. Hawtrey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis comprises two main parts: Introduction to and Commentary on Plato’s Euthydemus. The Introduction is divided into seven sections: #1. General eneral, including a summary of the dialogue. #2. The date of the Euthydemus. The Euthydemus and the Meno must be regarded as contemporaneous, being written after the Gorgias, Menexenus and Lysis and before the Cratylus (if it belongs to this period), Phaedo and Symposium. At this period Plato shows a particular interest in eristic and its practitioners. The absolute date can be put with confidence between 387 and 380 B.C., but not more precisely. #3. The characters of the dialogue. These are examined and assessed. #4. Purpose and philosophical significance. Plato is writing for his own time and his fundamental purpose is ethical and educational. In the Euthydemus he has several aims, among which are: to distinguish his method of dialectic from the eristic method of his rivals; to train his readers in logic; to amuse them; to lead them towards a doctrine of a supreme branch of knowledge; to persuade his public that his is the proper way to educate the young (to this extent the dialogue is something of a manifesto for the newly founded school in the Academy). #5. Whom does Plato attack in the Euthydemus? The main opponents are certain philosophers or teachers whom Plato calls eristic and who probably belong to the Megaric school - they cannot be identified with any greater certainty. Other targets are Isocrates and Antisthenes. #6. The Euthydemus as literature. Attention is given to the dramatic technique and to various stylistic features of the dialogue. #7. Eristic. A brief outline of what eristic was. The Commentary elucidates Burnet’s Greek text, with attention to linguistic, stylistic and philosophical aspects. The twenty-one sophisms of the dialogue are analysed in some detail. The following recurrent themes may be picked out: 1. Socrates is concerned with reality, while the sophists are interested merely in words; he aims at truth and they aim at refutation. 2. While the sophisms are not usually ‘solved’, Plato often makes Socrates give clues as to how they work, and the reader is expected to work them out for himself. 3. On several occasions Plato puts into the mouths of the sophists hidden references to his own doctrines; more than once he apparently mentions a doctrine that is usually thought to belong to a period later than the composition of the Euthydemus. 4. The dramatic structure of the Euthydemus is particularly well marked, and attention is drawn to Plato’s literary technique. 5. The overriding concern is education; Plato is recommending his own methods and pointing out the complete inadequacy of his rivals as teachers.
Download or read book Commentary on Plato s Euthydemus written by R. S. W. Hawtrey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentary on Plato s Euthydemus written by R. S. Hawtrey and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Euthydemus of Plato with an intr and notes by G H Wells written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking of Death in Plato s Euthydemus written by Gwenda-lin Grewal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Plato and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus Plato - The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic. But if the order of history were followed, they should be placed not at the end but at the beginning of them; for they belong to the age in which the human mind was first making the attempt to distinguish thought from sense, and to separate the universal from the particular or individual."Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the Euthydemus has in recent years attracted renewed attention. The dialogue, in which Socrates converses with two sophists whose techniques of verbal manipulation utterly disengage language from any grounding in stable meaning or reality, is in many ways a dialogue for our times. Contemporary questions of language and power permeate the speech and action of the dialogue. The two sophistsEuthydemus and his brother Dionysodorusexplicitly question whether speech has any connection to truth and specifically whether anything can be said about justice and nobility that cannot also be said about their opposites."
Download or read book Socrates and the Sophists written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Plato and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Cratylus of Plato written by Francesco Ademollo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, etymology, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This full-scale commentary on the Cratylus offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato's dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue's main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, in both philosophy and classics, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.
Download or read book Thinking of Death in Plato s Euthydemus written by Gwenda-lin Grewal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
Download or read book Early Socratic Dialogues written by Emlyn-Jones Chris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: "Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the Euthydemus has in recent years attracted renewed attention. The dialogue, in which Socrates converses with two sophists whose techniques of verbal manipulation utterly disengage language from any grounding in stable meaning or reality, is in many ways a dialogue for our times. Contemporary questions of language and power permeate the speech and action of the dialogue. The two sophists—Euthydemus and his brother Dionysodorus—explicitly question whether speech has any connection to truth and specifically whether anything can be said about justice and nobility that cannot also be said about their opposites." Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience. Features Notes, glossary, and an interpretive essay.
Download or read book Euthydemus Kartindo Classics written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus, written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists. In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a visit he and various youths paid to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom were prominent Sophists
Download or read book The Euthydemus of Plato with an Introduction and Notes by G H Wells written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job written by Owen Anderson and published by Logos Papers Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Job is about a question for all of us. Why is there suffering? Job is a personal book that speaks to each of us as we face suffering and meaninglessness. Job is a theological book that both builds on the Biblical Worldview and prepares its readers for the Gospel. Job is a philosophical book that critically examines solutions to this question. It is a book centered around a philosophical dialogue. It requires us to find an answer by going deeper in our understanding of the meaning of good and evil. Job's friends call him to repent of fruit sin but his Friend calls him to repent of root sin.
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Don Adams and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Plato's Euthydemus with extensive notes.
Download or read book The Euthydemus of Plato written by Edwin Hamilton Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
