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Plato’s Sophist
Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum- Authors:
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- International Plato Studies, Volume 42
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- 26.11.2024
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The articles in this volume are a selection of the papers presented during the Symposium Platonicum XIII held, 18-22 July 2022, at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. The topic of the Symposium was Plato’s Sophist. Internationally known scholars, representing a variety of traditions and perspectives, have contributed works focused on many aspects of this work. The richness of the dialogue is addressed under the following headings: Philosophers and Sophists, The Method of Division, Eleatic Stranger and Noble Sophist, Dynamis and Being, Being and Non-Being, Kinds, Truth and Falsehood, Before and After the Sophist.With contributions byCarolina Araujo | Mauro Bonazzi | André Luiz Braga da Silva | Lesley Brown | Ronna Burger | Nikos G. Charalabopoulos | Nestor-Luis Cordero | Michele Corradi | Paolo Crivelli | Monique Dixsaut | Cătălin Enache | Rafael Ferber | G.R.F. Ferrari | Francesco Ferro | Lloyd P. Gerson | Claudia Gianturco | Paolo Gigli | Francisco J. Gonzalez | Roberto Granieri | Raúl Gutiérrez | Verity Harte | Naoya Iwata | Manfred Kraus | Yuji Kurihara | Zdenek Lenner | Béatrice Lienemann | Yan Lu | Florian Marion | Claudia Marsico | Maurizio Migliori | Anna Motta | Fernando Muniz | David J. Murphy | Noburu Notomi | Simon Noriega-Olmos | Sebastian Odzuck | John Palmer | Richard Patterson | Julia Pfefferkorn | Mario Regali | François Renaud | Christopher Rowe | George Rudebusch | Alessandro Stavru | Filippo Sirianni | Jenny K. Strandberg | Jan Szaif | Harold Tarrant | Franco Trabattoni | Thomas Tuozzo | Michael Wiitala | Nicolas Zaks
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- Publication year
- 2024
- Publication date
- 26.11.2024
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-495-99135-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-495-99136-7
- Publisher
- Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
- Series
- International Plato Studies
- Volume
- 42
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 573
- Product type
- Edited Book
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- Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis Pages 1 - 14 Download chapter (PDF)
- François Renaud Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Cadres dramaturgiques et sujet de la discussion Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Passages homériques adaptés et fusionnés Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Réfutation et préoccupations éthiques Download chapter (PDF)
- Noburu Notomi Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The sophist matters Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Who should be distinguished? Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. How are they distinguished? Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Similarity is slippery Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. Similarity is defined Download chapter (PDF)
- 6. Affection means participation Download chapter (PDF)
- 7. The art of dialectic explicates similarities Download chapter (PDF)
- 8. Now we can determine the noble sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- 9. How do we distinguish between the sophist and the philosopher? Download chapter (PDF)
- 10. Can we be philosophers? Download chapter (PDF)
- Mauro Bonazzi Download chapter (PDF)
- Philosophers and Sophists Download chapter (PDF)
- Cătălin Enache Download chapter (PDF)
- Nikos G. Charalabopoulos Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. I want it that way (Plato says) Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Double invisible epiphany Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. A whiter shade of pale Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Intratextuality Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. A darker shade of blue Download chapter (PDF)
- 6. The Well of Fortune Download chapter (PDF)
- Fernando Muniz, George Rudebusch Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. The paradigmatic division and its Homeric antecedents Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Metaphysics of the simile Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Conclusion: too dirty? Download chapter (PDF)
- Naoya Iwata Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. The Visitor’s Task Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. The Role of Division Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Verity Harte Download chapter (PDF)
- The Philebus describes and illustrates the “Promethean Method” at elaborate length (16c-18d). Notably, this passage is said only to portray a “dialectical” as opposed to “eristical” way of proceeding ... Download chapter (PDF)
- Filippo Sirianni Download chapter (PDF)
- Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- The seven definitions Download chapter (PDF)
- Dynamis and definition in the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- Dynamis and definition in the Statesman Download chapter (PDF)
- Grasping the essence of a Form Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion. Download chapter (PDF)
- Sebastian Odzuck Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Overview Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. The Analogy Thesis Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. The Knowledge Thesis Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Jan Szaif Download chapter (PDF)
- Zdenek Lenner Download chapter (PDF)
- Prologue: erōs, thēra and paideia Download chapter (PDF)
- I. The dialectical chase Download chapter (PDF)
- II. The sophistic chase Download chapter (PDF)
- III. The Socratic chase Download chapter (PDF)
- Epilogue: The reader’s chase Download chapter (PDF)
- The Stranger of the Sophist: A Citizen of Elea “Different” from the Eleatic Philosophers Pages 173 - 182 Nestor-Luis Cordero Download chapter (PDF)
- Julia Pfefferkorn Download chapter (PDF)
- 1 Sokrates’ Anspielung auf Homer Download chapter (PDF)
- 2 Motivische Resonanzen: Odysseus, Proteus und die Jagdmetaphorik Download chapter (PDF)
- 3 Der Sophist als Gestaltwandler und die Autorität des Fremden Download chapter (PDF)
- 4 Die Funktion der ersten sechs Dihairesen Download chapter (PDF)
- 5 Die Kunst des Fremden Download chapter (PDF)
- Platone γενναῖος σοφιστής: per un’interpretazione metaletteraria della sezione sulla “nobile sofistica” (Sph. 226b-231c) Pages 193 - 200 Mario Regali Download chapter (PDF)
- Alessandro Stavru Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion. Download chapter (PDF)
- Franco Trabattoni Download chapter (PDF)
- Parmenide padre superficiale e testardo. L’eredità eleatica nel Sofista. Pages 219 - 226 Francesco Ferro Download chapter (PDF)
- Florian Marion Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The ‘late-learners’ from Sph. 251a8-c6 Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. The White-Horse Paradox: Gōngsūn Lóng and the Mohists Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Simon Noriega-Olmos Download chapter (PDF)
- 1 Problems of Sph. 244d11–12 Download chapter (PDF)
- 2 The context of Sph. 244d11–12 Download chapter (PDF)
- 3 The name-one argument Download chapter (PDF)
- 4 Lessons to learn Download chapter (PDF)
- 5 Editing Sph. 244d11–12 Download chapter (PDF)
- The Kinêsis of Being in Plato’s Sophist and the Motivation for Aristotle’s Notion of Energeia Pages 249 - 256 Francisco J. Gonzalez Download chapter (PDF)
- Carolina Araujo Download chapter (PDF)
- Corporealists Download chapter (PDF)
- Formalists Download chapter (PDF)
- Existence and connection Download chapter (PDF)
- Lloyd P. Gerson Download chapter (PDF)
- Yan Lu Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Dynamis Proposal and the Modes of Power Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Bodies and Interactional Power Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Forms and Constitutional Power Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Active Soul and Directional Power Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Raúl Gutiérrez Download chapter (PDF)
- To Act and to Suffer: Allusions to Plato’s Dialectical Metaphysics in the Sophist Pages 291 - 306 Maurizio Migliori Download chapter (PDF)
- Paolo Gigli Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The two readings Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Arguments available to support the second reading Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Focus on the fifth argument Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Richard Patterson Download chapter (PDF)
- Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- The Friends of the Forms and Plato’s Own Platonism Download chapter (PDF)
- Implications for the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- How Participation in Forms Makes Participants What They Are Download chapter (PDF)
- Return to Knower and Known Download chapter (PDF)
- Why Sophistry Is Not a Technē Download chapter (PDF)
- The technitai Must Do Their Part Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- What completely is, what in no way is, and what is and is not in Plato’s Sophist and Republic Pages 325 - 332 John Palmer Download chapter (PDF)
- Malum esse duplex, et le non ens ipsum: la distinzione tra τὸ μὴ ὄν e τὸ μηδαμῶς ὄν del Sofista di Platone nella soluzione procliana al problema del male Pages 333 - 340 Claudia Gianturco Download chapter (PDF)
- André Luiz Braga da Silva Download chapter (PDF)
- Introduction: my aims Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The “being” of the Ideas in the Republic Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Which sense of “existence”? Brief remarks on the verb “to be” in Plato Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. The “being” of the Ideas in the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. A rule for the causation of predicates Download chapter (PDF)
- Final Considerations Download chapter (PDF)
- Roberto Granieri Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. The question Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Four Referents of τὸ ὄν Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Contribution to the Solution to the Paradox Download chapter (PDF)
- Jenny K. Strandberg Download chapter (PDF)
- Partners in Confusion Download chapter (PDF)
- From Retreat to Counterattack: A Clever Move Download chapter (PDF)
- Rafael Ferber Download chapter (PDF)
- On Section 1 Download chapter (PDF)
- On Section 2 Download chapter (PDF)
- The Eidos of Non-existence in Plato’s Sophist: 257a11-b4 Pages 381 - 388 Thomas Tuozzo Download chapter (PDF)
- Yuji Kurihara Download chapter (PDF)
- Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- The Analogy of the Nature of Difference and Knowledge (257c7–d6) Download chapter (PDF)
- Not-Beautiful as a Part of Difference (257d7–e11) Download chapter (PDF)
- Not-Being as the Nature of Difference (258a1–e3) Download chapter (PDF)
- Conclusion Download chapter (PDF)
- Lesley Brown Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. Framework claims Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Plato and the Copula: against Cornford Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Ackrill against Robinson on identity and attribution; the role of the Four Quartets (255e-257a) Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Two approaches: Ackrill’s and the Platonist/self-predication approach Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. Difficulties for the self-predication readings of 255e-257a Download chapter (PDF)
- 6. Identity vindicated, but not an ‘is’ of identity Download chapter (PDF)
- 7. Coda: An existential ‘is’ at 256a1? The semantic continuity thesis defended Download chapter (PDF)
- Nicolas Zaks Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The proof and the exegetical difficulty it raises Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Existing attempts to solve the difficulty Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. A reappraisal of the proof Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Consequences for key passages of the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- Michael Wiitala Download chapter (PDF)
- I. Parts of Knowledge Download chapter (PDF)
- II. Parts of Different Download chapter (PDF)
- Béatrice Lienemann Download chapter (PDF)
- Self-Participation in Plato? Download chapter (PDF)
- Lines 255e3-6 and their context in the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- Alexander Nehamas Download chapter (PDF)
- James Kostman Download chapter (PDF)
- Objections to the assumption of self-participation Download chapter (PDF)
- Concluding remarks Download chapter (PDF)
- Paolo Crivelli Download chapter (PDF)
- I. Two puzzles about falsehood and not-being in the Sophist Download chapter (PDF)
- II. The Parmenides on being and truth Download chapter (PDF)
- III. Two ways of understanding the claim that truths speak of the world as it is Download chapter (PDF)
- Ἀληθὴς δόξα in the Sophist between Theaetetus and Seventh Letter Pages 461 - 468 Manfred Kraus Download chapter (PDF)
- Monique Dixsaut Download chapter (PDF)
- Un discours auto-destructeur Download chapter (PDF)
- Hier, les trois sens du mot logos Download chapter (PDF)
- Modalités Download chapter (PDF)
- Le premier et plus petit discours Download chapter (PDF)
- L’entrelacement minimal Download chapter (PDF)
- L’homme apprend : une brève histoire du terme apprendre chez Platon Download chapter (PDF)
- Théétète est-assis et Théétète vole Download chapter (PDF)
- De la fausseté dans les discours à celle « parente » des images Download chapter (PDF)
- Des choses qui sont et ne sont pas autour de chaque étant Download chapter (PDF)
- Mise en scène Download chapter (PDF)
- Sulla lotta e le altre τέχναι. Protagora nel Sofista Pages 485 - 492 Michele Corradi Download chapter (PDF)
- Ronna Burger Download chapter (PDF)
- Introduction Download chapter (PDF)
- I. The God of Strangers in the Odyssey Download chapter (PDF)
- II. The Being of the Philosopher and His Apparitions Download chapter (PDF)
- III. The Interlocutors of the Sophist on the Homeric Model Download chapter (PDF)
- IV. The Eleatic Method and the Socratic Art of Purification Download chapter (PDF)
- V. Socratic Philosophy After the Death of Socrates Download chapter (PDF)
- Sophist 216a-b Download chapter (PDF)
- Odyssey 9. 266-271 Download chapter (PDF)
- Odyssey 17. 483-487 Download chapter (PDF)
- Claudia Marsico Download chapter (PDF)
- 1. The motives of tension Download chapter (PDF)
- 2. Antisthenes and the method of division Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Antisthenes and Parmenides’ parricide Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Antisthenes, language, and truth Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. Corollaries Download chapter (PDF)
- The Place of the Sophist in Old Academic Theory and Curriculum Pages 527 - 534 Harold Tarrant Download chapter (PDF)
- Anna Motta Download chapter (PDF)
- References Pages 543 - 566 Download chapter (PDF)
- Index Nominum Pages 567 - 570 Download chapter (PDF)
- Index Subjectium Pages 571 - 573 Download chapter (PDF)
