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 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. 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 Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry written by Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interpretation of Plato’s Euthydemus as a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspects. It aims to do justice to a major Platonic work which has so far received comparatively little treatment. Except for the sections of the dialogue in which Socrates presents an argument on the pursuit of eudaimonia, the Euthydemus seems to have been largely ignored. The reason for this is that much of the work’s philosophical import lies hidden underneath a veil of riotous comedy. This book shows how a reading of the dialogue as a whole, rather than a limited focus on the Socratic scenes, sheds light on the work’s central philosophical questions. It argues the Euthydemus points not only to the differences between Socrates and the sophists, but also to actual and alleged similarities between them. The framing scenes comment precisely on this aspect of the internal dialogue, with Crito still lumping together philosophy and eristic shortly before his discussion with Socrates comes to an end. Hence the question that permeates the Euthydemus is raised afresh at the end of the dialogue: what is properly to be termed philosophy?
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 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 . This book was released on 2020-04-18 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 from Chios and Thurii. The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentation and education with the methods of Sophism, to the detriment of the latter. Throughout the dialogue, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to ensnare Socrates with what are presented as deceptive and meaningless arguments, primarily to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority. As in many of the Socratic dialogues, the two Sophists against whom Socrates argues were indeed real people. Euthydemus was somewhat famous at the time the dialogue was written, and is mentioned several times by both Plato and Aristotle. Likewise, Dionysodorus is mentioned by Xenophon. Plato defines Euthydemus' and Dionysodorus' argumentation as 'eristic'. This literally means "designed for wrangling" ('eris' meaning 'strife' in Greek). No matter how one attempts to refute eristic arguments, the argument is designed so that any means of refutation will fail. For example, at one point, Euthydemus attempts to prove the impossibility of falsehood: "Non-facts do not exist do they?" "No, they don't." "And things which do not exist do not exist anywhere, do they?" "No." "Now, is it possible for things which do not exist to be the object of any action, in the sense that things which do not exist anywhere can have anything done to them? "I don't think so." "Well then, when politicians speak in the Assembly, isn't that an activity?" "Yes, it is." "And if it's an activity, they are doing something?" "Yes." "Then speech is activity, and doing something?" He agreed. "So no one speaks non-existent things: I mean, he would already, in speaking, be doing something, and you have agreed that it is impossible for non-existent things to have anything done to them by anybody. So you have committed to the view that lies never happen: if Dionysodorus speaks, he speaks facts-that is, truth.
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Plato and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus, written circa 384 BCE, 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 from Chios and Thurii
Download or read book Euthydemus written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus is a dialogue by Plato written circa 384 BC. In this dialogue, Plato satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. The work centers around Socrates and two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who were prominent Sophists. The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentation with the methods of Sophism, showcasing the fallacies of the latter. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to entrap Socrates with deceptive and meaningless arguments throughout the dialogue, primarily to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority. Yet, the sarcastic tone of the dialogue presents their attempts as vain and primitive.
Download or read book The Euthydemus of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life written by Daniel Russell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing aboutgoodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill of living are, in the first instance, not things like money or health, but one's attitudes, emotions, and desires where things like money and health are concerned. Plato recognizes thatthese 'materials' of the psyche are inchoate, ethically speaking, and in need of direction from wisdom. Among them is pleasure, which Plato treats not as a sensation but as an attitude with which one ascribes value to its object. However, Plato also views pleasure, once shaped and directed by wisdom, as a crucial part of a virtuous character as a whole. Consequently, Plato rejects all forms of hedonism, which allows happiness to be determined by a part of the psyche that does not direct one'slife but is among the materials to be directed. At the same time, Plato is also able to hold both that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and that pleasure is necessary for happiness, not as an addition to one's virtue, but as a constituent of one's whole virtuous character itself. Plato thereforeoffers an illuminating role for pleasure in ethics and psychology, one to which we may be unaccustomed: pleasure emerges not as a sensation or even a mode of activity, but as an attitude - one of the ways in which we construe our world - and as such, a central part of every character.
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 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 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 written by Plato and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 74 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 and pankrationists from Chios and Thurii. The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentation and education with the methods of Sophism, to the detriment of the latter. Throughout the dialogue, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to ensnare Socrates with what are presented as deceptive and meaningless arguments, primarily to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority。
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 Euthydemus written by Plato Translated by B. Jowett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 0 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 from Chios and Thurii.The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentation and education with the methods of Sophism, to the detriment of the latter. Throughout the dialogue, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to ensnare Socrates with what are presented as deceptive and meaningless arguments, primarily to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority.
