Sophist - or The Professor of Wisdom (Paperback, New edition)

Plato's "Sophist" takes the form of a conversation between four characters - Socrates, the great philosopher who is shortly to be tried for impiety and corruption, Theaetetus, a brilliant young mathematician, Theaetetus' elderly teacher Theodorus, and a stranger introduced as "a very philosophical man". The conversation, often considered one of the greatest of all Platonic dialogues, concerns "the purveyor of ignorance" - the sophist. In the Greece of Socrates' time there was a group of travelling professors who gave themselves the honorary title of "sophists", or "wisdom-pliers". Their principle activity was to sell their expertise, particularly of rhetorical techniques and of philosophical opinions. This trading of philosophical insight by those believing themselves to be universal experts is politely but devastatingly undermined by Socrates and his interlocutors, in this, one of the most important of Plato's extant philosophical texts.

General

Imprint:	Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Plato
Translators:	Eva Brann • Peter Kalkavage • Eric Salem
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	93
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-941051-51-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
LSN:	0-941051-51-X
Barcode:	9780941051514

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