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Plato’s Sophist

Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum
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International Plato Studies, Volume 42
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 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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Bibliographic data

Copyright year
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

Table of contents

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  1. Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 - 14 Download chapter (PDF)
    1. François Renaud Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Cadres dramaturgiques et sujet de la discussion
      2. 2. Passages homériques adaptés et fusionnés
      3. 3. Réfutation et préoccupations éthiques
    2. The Sophist, Sophists, and Socrates 25 - 38 Christopher Rowe Download chapter (PDF)
    3. Noburu Notomi Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. The sophist matters
      2. 2. Who should be distinguished?
      3. 3. How are they distinguished?
      4. 4. Similarity is slippery
      5. 5. Similarity is defined
      6. 6. Affection means participation
      7. 7. The art of dialectic explicates similarities
      8. 8. Now we can determine the noble sophist
      9. 9. How do we distinguish between the sophist and the philosopher?
      10. 10. Can we be philosophers?
    4. Mauro Bonazzi Download chapter (PDF)
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      3. Philosophers and Sophists
    5. Cătălin Enache Download chapter (PDF)
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    6. Nikos G. Charalabopoulos Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. I want it that way (Plato says)
      2. 2. Double invisible epiphany
      3. 3. A whiter shade of pale
      4. 4. Intratextuality
      5. 5. A darker shade of blue
      6. 6. The Well of Fortune
    1. Fernando Muniz, George Rudebusch Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Introduction
      2. 2. The paradigmatic division and its Homeric antecedents
      3. 3. Metaphysics of the simile
      4. 3. Conclusion: too dirty?
    2. Naoya Iwata Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Introduction
      2. 2. The Visitor’s Task
      3. 3. The Role of Division
      4. 4. Conclusion
    3. Verity Harte Download chapter (PDF)
        1. 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 ...
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    4. Filippo Sirianni Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. The seven definitions
      3. Dynamis and definition in the Sophist
      4. Dynamis and definition in the Statesman
      5. Grasping the essence of a Form
      6. Conclusion.
    5. Plato’s Sophist: Rebarbative by Design? 135 - 142 G.R.F. Ferrari Download chapter (PDF)
    6. Sebastian Odzuck Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Overview
      2. 2. The Analogy Thesis
      3. 3. The Knowledge Thesis
      4. 4. Conclusion
    1. Jan Szaif Download chapter (PDF)
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    2. Zdenek Lenner Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Prologue: erōs, thēra and paideia
      2. I. The dialectical chase
      3. II. The sophistic chase
      4. III. The Socratic chase
      5. Epilogue: The reader’s chase
    3. The Stranger of the Sophist: A Citizen of Elea “Different” from the Eleatic Philosophers 173 - 182 Nestor-Luis Cordero Download chapter (PDF)
    4. Julia Pfefferkorn Download chapter (PDF)
        1. 1 Sokrates’ Anspielung auf Homer
        2. 2 Motivische Resonanzen: Odysseus, Proteus und die Jagdmetaphorik
        3. 3 Der Sophist als Gestaltwandler und die Autorität des Fremden
        4. 4 Die Funktion der ersten sechs Dihairesen
        5. 5 Die Kunst des Fremden
    5. Platone γενναῖος σοφιστής: per un’interpretazione metaletteraria della sezione sulla “nobile sofistica” (Sph. 226b-231c) 193 - 200 Mario Regali Download chapter (PDF)
    6. Alessandro Stavru Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Conclusion.
    7. Franco Trabattoni Download chapter (PDF)
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    8. Parmenide padre superficiale e testardo. L’eredità eleatica nel Sofista. 219 - 226 Francesco Ferro Download chapter (PDF)
    9. Florian Marion Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. The ‘late-learners’ from Sph. 251a8-c6
      2. 2. The White-Horse Paradox: Gōngsūn Lóng and the Mohists
      3. 3. Conclusion
    10. Simon Noriega-Olmos Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1 Problems of Sph. 244d11–12
      2. 2 The context of Sph. 244d11–12
      3. 3 The name-one argument
      4. 4 Lessons to learn
      5. 5 Editing Sph. 244d11–12
    1. The Kinêsis of Being in Plato’s Sophist and the Motivation for Aristotle’s Notion of Energeia 249 - 256 Francisco J. Gonzalez Download chapter (PDF)
    2. Carolina Araujo Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Corporealists
      2. Formalists
      3. Existence and connection
    3. Lloyd P. Gerson Download chapter (PDF)
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    4. Yan Lu Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Dynamis Proposal and the Modes of Power
      2. 2. Bodies and Interactional Power
      3. 3. Forms and Constitutional Power
      4. 4. Active Soul and Directional Power
      5. 5. Conclusion
    5. Raúl Gutiérrez Download chapter (PDF)
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    6. To Act and to Suffer: Allusions to Plato’s Dialectical Metaphysics in the Sophist 291 - 306 Maurizio Migliori Download chapter (PDF)
    7. Paolo Gigli Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. The two readings
      2. 2. Arguments available to support the second reading
      3. 3. Focus on the fifth argument
      4. 4. Conclusion
    8. Richard Patterson Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. The Friends of the Forms and Plato’s Own Platonism
      3. Implications for the Sophist
      4. How Participation in Forms Makes Participants What They Are
      5. Return to Knower and Known
      6. Why Sophistry Is Not a Technē
      7. The technitai Must Do Their Part
      8. Conclusion
    1. What completely is, what in no way is, and what is and is not in Plato’s Sophist and Republic 325 - 332 John Palmer Download chapter (PDF)
    2. 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 333 - 340 Claudia Gianturco Download chapter (PDF)
    3. André Luiz Braga da Silva Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Introduction: my aims
      2. 1. The “being” of the Ideas in the Republic
      3. 2. Which sense of “existence”? Brief remarks on the verb “to be” in Plato
      4. 3. The “being” of the Ideas in the Sophist
      5. 4. A rule for the causation of predicates
      6. Final Considerations
    4. Roberto Granieri Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Introduction
      2. 2. The question
      3. 3. Four Referents of τὸ ὄν
      4. 4. Contribution to the Solution to the Paradox
    5. Jenny K. Strandberg Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Partners in Confusion
      2. From Retreat to Counterattack: A Clever Move
    6. Σκοπός and the Unity of the Sophist 365 - 372 David J. Murphy Download chapter (PDF)
    7. Rafael Ferber Download chapter (PDF)
        1. On Section 1
        2. On Section 2
      2. III.
    8. The Eidos of Non-existence in Plato’s Sophist: 257a11-b4 381 - 388 Thomas Tuozzo Download chapter (PDF)
    9. Yuji Kurihara Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. The Analogy of the Nature of Difference and Knowledge (257c7–d6)
      3. Not-Beautiful as a Part of Difference (257d7–e11)
      4. Not-Being as the Nature of Difference (258a1–e3)
      5. Conclusion
    1. Lesley Brown Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. Framework claims
      2. 2. Plato and the Copula: against Cornford
      3. 3. Ackrill against Robinson on identity and attribution; the role of the Four Quartets (255e-257a)
      4. 4. Two approaches: Ackrill’s and the Platonist/self-predication approach
      5. 5. Difficulties for the self-predication readings of 255e-257a
      6. 6. Identity vindicated, but not an ‘is’ of identity
      7. 7. Coda: An existential ‘is’ at 256a1? The semantic continuity thesis defended
    2. Nicolas Zaks Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. The proof and the exegetical difficulty it raises
      2. 2. Existing attempts to solve the difficulty
      3. 3. A reappraisal of the proof
      4. 4. Consequences for key passages of the Sophist
    3. Michael Wiitala Download chapter (PDF)
      1. I. Parts of Knowledge
      2. II. Parts of Different
    4. Béatrice Lienemann Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Self-Participation in Plato?
      2. Lines 255e3-6 and their context in the Sophist
      3. Alexander Nehamas
      4. James Kostman
      5. Objections to the assumption of self-participation
      6. Concluding remarks
    1. Paolo Crivelli Download chapter (PDF)
      1. I. Two puzzles about falsehood and not-being in the Sophist
      2. II. The Parmenides on being and truth
      3. III. Two ways of understanding the claim that truths speak of the world as it is
    2. Ἀληθὴς δόξα in the Sophist between Theaetetus and Seventh Letter 461 - 468 Manfred Kraus Download chapter (PDF)
    3. Monique Dixsaut Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Un discours auto-destructeur
      2. Hier, les trois sens du mot logos
      3. Modalités
      4. Le premier et plus petit discours
      5. L’entrelacement minimal
      6. L’homme apprend : une brève histoire du terme apprendre chez Platon
      7. Théétète est-assis et Théétète vole
      8. De la fausseté dans les discours à celle « parente » des images
      9. Des choses qui sont et ne sont pas autour de chaque étant
      10. Mise en scène
    4. Sulla lotta e le altre τέχναι. Protagora nel Sofista 485 - 492 Michele Corradi Download chapter (PDF)
    1. Ronna Burger Download chapter (PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. I. The God of Strangers in the Odyssey
      3. II. The Being of the Philosopher and His Apparitions
      4. III. The Interlocutors of the Sophist on the Homeric Model
      5. IV. The Eleatic Method and the Socratic Art of Purification
      6. V. Socratic Philosophy After the Death of Socrates
        1. Sophist 216a-b
        2. Odyssey 9. 266-271
        3. Odyssey 17. 483-487
    2. Claudia Marsico Download chapter (PDF)
      1. 1. The motives of tension
      2. 2. Antisthenes and the method of division
      3. 3. Antisthenes and Parmenides’ parricide
      4. 4. Antisthenes, language, and truth
      5. 5. Corollaries
    3. The Place of the Sophist in Old Academic Theory and Curriculum 527 - 534 Harold Tarrant Download chapter (PDF)
    4. Anna Motta Download chapter (PDF)
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  10. References 543 - 566 Download chapter (PDF)
  11. Index Nominum 567 - 570 Download chapter (PDF)
  12. Index Subjectium 571 - 573 Download chapter (PDF)

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