"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.
| ISBN: | 9781585103058 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 2010 |
| Author: | Plato, Gregory A McBrayer, Mary P Nichols, Denise Schaeffer |
| Publisher: | Focus an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 100 pages |
| Series: | Focus Philosophical Library |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |
"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.
Euthydemus features in the following genres: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Euthydemus is available in Paperback
Euthydemus was written by Plato, Gregory A McBrayer, Mary P Nichols, Denise Schaeffer and published by Focus an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Euthydemus has 100 pages
Yes it is part of Focus Philosophical Library series
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