The Unity of Plato's Sophist

The Unity of Plato's Sophist
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 0521632595
ISBN-13 : 9780521632591
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Book Synopsis The Unity of Plato's Sophist by : Noburu Notomi

Download or read book The Unity of Plato's Sophist written by Noburu Notomi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting the central problem of the dialogue. For Plato, defining the sophist is the basic philosophical problem: any inquirer must face the 'sophist within us' in order to secure the very possibility of dialogue, and of philosophy, against sophistic counterattack. Examining the connection between the large and difficult philosophical issues discussed in the Sophist (appearance, image, falsehood, and 'what is not') in relation to the basic problem of defining the sophist, Dr Notomi shows how Plato struggles with and solves all these problems in a single line of inquiry. His interpretation of the whole dialogue finally reveals how the philosopher should differ from the sophist.


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