Description
| Product ID: | 9781585103058 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Euthydemus |
| Authors: | Author: Plato, Mary P. Nichols, Gregory A. McBrayer |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 |
| Description: | English translation of Plato’s dialogue of Socrates with two prominent Sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, and their conflicting philosophical views, in which Plato satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. With notes, introduction, interpretive essay, and a glossary of important words. 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. FeaturesNotes, glossary, and an interpretive essay. |
| Imprint Name: | Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co |
| Publisher Name: | Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-08-06 |
