| Description |
xvii, 279 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One -- Dramatic setting -- Statement of the problem (216a-217b) -- Paradigms (217b-219a) -- Diaeresis: The method of division -- Speusippus -- Diaeresis in Aristotle -- Diaeresis in the dialogues -- Diaeresis in the Phaedrus -- Diaeresis in the Statesman -- Diaeresis in the Philebus -- Preliminary summary of Platonic diaeresis -- The angler (219a-221c) -- Diaeresis in the Sophist -- and (art and knack) -- The attributes of sophistry -- First definition: The sophist as hunter (221c-223b) -- Second, third and fourth definitions: The sophist as huckster (223c-224e) -- Fifth definition: The sophist as verbal athlete (224e-226a) -- Sixth definition: The sophist as educator (226a-231c) -- A £ (opinionative knowledge) (231c-233d) -- Part Two -- Images -- The image-making art (233d-236c) -- The vocabulary of imitation -- (image) -- (appearance) -- (likeness) -- The theory of participation -- Images and imitation in the Sophist -- Not-being (236d-239e) -- Opposition -- Not-being and images (239e-240c) -- False opinion (240c-242b) -- The more accurate analysis of being (242b-244d) -- (what is) -- The Sophist and the Parmenides -- Whole and part (244d-246a) -- The senses of being -- Being and difference -- The less accurate analysis of being (246a-248a) -- The earth-born -- (power) -- The friends of the forms (248a-249d) -- Recapitulation: The perplexity of being (249d-251a) -- Part Three -- The modes of combination (251a-252e) -- The definition of dialectic (252e-254b) -- The communion of kinds (254b-255e) -- The five greatest kinds, in outline -- ' and £ -- The definition of not-being (255e-257a) -- The reductio ad absurdum -- Kinds and forms -- Oppositions again -- False statement (259b-264b) -- Being as truth -- Truth and falsity, truth and ignorance -- On saying, saying something, saying something that is -- Conclusion (264b-268a) -- Part Four -- Sophist translation -- Appendix -- Selected bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index |
| Subject |
Plato. Sophist.
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| Author |
Plato.
Sophist. English.
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| LC no. |
2007005040 |
| ISBN |
1930972040 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781930972049 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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