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Sophist

Author
Plato
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
130 pages
ISBN
9781911429944
Published
19 June 2016
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • Being
  • Non-being
  • Reality
  • Forms
  • Ideas
  • Knowledge
  • Language
  • Persuasion
  • Sophistry
  • Deception

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Description

Plato's Sophist is a dialogue between Socrates and two other philosophers, Theaetetus and an unnamed Stranger. The three engage in a philosophical discussion about the nature of being and the art of sophistry. The Stranger argues that there are two types of beings: those that are visible and tangible, such as physical objects, and those that are invisible and intangible, such as ideas and concepts. The Stranger claims that the art of sophistry is the manipulation of these intangible beings, which he calls "non-being."

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Plato (c. 427–347 BCE) wrote the dialogues in which Socrates thinks aloud — justice, love, the shape of a good city. Philosophy here is drama. Interactive Media keeps those conversations in circulation.

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