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 Euthydemus written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus (Greek: Euthydemos), written c. 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. 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.
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 by Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Euthydemus of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato s Euthydemus written by Thomas H. Chance and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We must turn to the Euthydemus if we are to understand both Plato's earlier and his more mature work. Thomas Chance's book is an indispensible tool for penetrating to the sources of Plato's thinking on the nature of philosophy. This is the most impressive treatment of the dialogue so far available to scholars, and the interpretations offered will surely be the starting point for all future discussions."--G. B. Kerferd, Emeritus, University of Manchester "A sensitive and well-informed study of an important and much neglected dialogue."--R. E. Allen, Northwestern University "A sensitive and well-informed study of an important and much neglected dialogue."--R. E. Allen "Chance's book [will be] an indispensable tool for penetrating to the sources of Plato's thinking. . . . The interpretations offered will surely be the starting point for all future discussions."--George Kerferd
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 by Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euthydemus 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 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 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 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 Plato s Use of Fallacy RLE Plato written by Rosamond Kent Sprague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his fundamental philosophical views. Plato introduces them, the author maintains, for the purpose of working out their implications. Plato is thus able to expose them for what they are, to clear away possible lines of attack upon his own position, and even to show that when the proper correction is applied his own views receive support.
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 Plato Euthydemus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 100 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 Plato the Teacher written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato s Use of Fallacy RLE Plato written by Rosamond Sprague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his fundamental philosophical views. Plato introduces them, the author maintains, for the purpose of working out their implications. Plato is thus able to expose them for what they are, to clear away possible lines of attack upon his own position, and even to show that when the proper correction is applied his own views receive support.
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 281 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?
