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"Being And Predication In Plato's ""sophist."""
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The Limits of Philosophy: Plato's Sophist and Statesman
Plato's Sophist and Statesman articulate the limits or definition of philosophy. My selective interpretation begins with a problem from Sophist 259e-260a and 252e-253e: Is it possible to express correctly (in logos) the necessary conditions of logos? This is an instance of a universal problem: Is …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… one were to look for a Platonic definition of a sophist, it would seem that there could be no better place than Plato’s <em>Sophist</em>, in which the Stranger and Theaetetus lay out a series of definitions in an attempt to articulate what makes a sophist. The Stranger’s definition of a sophist …
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The Sophist In The Cave: Education Through Names In Plato's Republic
… Moreover, I explain how Plato’s discussions of sophistical manipulation of names in the Cratylus, the Euthydemus, and the Sophist can be used to illuminate the epistemological landscape of the Republic. In particular, I contend that the cave image can be best understood only when we understand …
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The Problem of Separation (χωρισμός) and Participation (μέθεξις) in Plato’s Late Dialogues (Parmenides, Sophist, Timaeus) /
… can then be shown to receive solutions in the Sophist and the Timaeus. The Sophist deals with the noetic aspect of the problem and provides an arithmological interpretation of Forms, which explains the structural relations between them in a meaningful way, while the Timaeus deals with the …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
The argument that underlies the thesis is that sophistic logos , both as abstract conceptualization and as concrete verbal expression, is problematic and ineffectual. The Theaetetus, with its central focus on the notion of episteme as aisthesis, provides the ideal context in which the sophistic …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… parallel with Plato's parricide of Parmenides (Sophist 242b6-5e5) and then compares the Physics' refutation with Aristotle's treatment of the Eleatics in Metaphysics A.3-5. It concludes that from this background Aristotle draws a necessary requirement for his own metaphysical investigation, …
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The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals
… contrast to the purpose of speechmaking for the sophist. The sophist seeks to enchant the soul, while the philosopher seeks to charm the soul into loving wisdom through stimulating discussions. Socrates also uses role reversals in the lover-beloved relationship to model the soul's ascent, …
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The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue
This dissertation is a study of the Greek sophists as teachers of <i>aretê</i> (virtue or human excellence) and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on …
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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… Aristotle’s observations, an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus’ third ontological principle, namely the Receptacle. Being thought of as space or matter, the Receptacle thus emerges as the quasi-material component that …
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
… of non-being. Taking Plato's Parmenides and Sophist as points of departure, I show how each of the above mentioned thinkers, including Aristotle, fails to meet Plato's criteria for, i.e. solve, the problem of non-being. I then use contemporary memory research for the sake of enunciating my …
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The nature and purpose of relative terms in Plato
… by Plato’s version of conjunctivism. Looking at Sophist 255c–d and Parmenides 133c–134e, I discuss the taxonomy of relative terms. I show that, under the conjunctive reading, they form a distinguishable class and, in contrast to Owenian relatives, each reciprocates with its correlative. So, just …