Plato's Euthydemus Analysis of What Is and Is Not Philosophy
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With Plato's Euthydemus, Thomas Chance solves a longstanding riddle of Platonic studies. Thought to be an early, immature work, the Euthydemus has come across to scholars as lacking Plato's characteristic greatness. This apparent lack, Chance argues, is not a failure of the text but of scholarly perception. He advances a single thesis: that Plato deliberately presents eristiccontentious debateas the antithesis to his own philosophical method. Once this thesis is accepted, the "hidden" purpose of the Euthydemus becomes manifest: Plato has used the occasion of his dialogue to combine a brilliantly crafted parody of sophistic antilogy with a subtle yet forceful exhortation designed to persuade all of us to pursue virtue and to love wisdom.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520077546 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 04 Dec 1992 |
DEWEY: | 184 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Number of pages: | 282 |
Weight: | 657g |
Height: | 236mm |
Width: | 158mm |
Spine width: | 26mm |