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The sophists in Plato's Dialogues /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Corey, David D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Plato. > Dialogues.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Dialogues (Plato)
Plato, > 428-348 v.Chr.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Defining the Platonic sophists
  • The "great speech" in Plato's Protagoras
  • Prodicus: diplomat, sophist and teacher of Socrates
  • The sophist Hippias and the problem of Polytropia
  • Brother sophists: Euthydemus and Dionysodorus
  • Protagorean sophistry in Plato's Theaetetus
  • Plato's critique of the sophists?
  • Appendix: a primer on Hesiod's Myth of Prometheus.