- In the second part, we try to show that this transfer has a dramatic staging at the beginning of the Sophist dialogue, where Socrates makes a demand that enables...
- English-language translations of el:Σοφιστής include: The Sophista, trans. by Thomas Taylor (1804) (transcription project).
- The Case for Sophist as (Originally) a Dialogue on Jewish Methods. Rae West - 20 April 2022. The object of this short piece is to make the case for Plato's...
- What can we learn from what little we know of the life of the Sophist Protagoras, who was featured in several Platonic dialogues, and the few fragments of his...
- -/- In Plato's work the "Sophist", Socrates, who typically occupies a central position in Plato's dialogues, is assigned a supporting role.
- 2. Sophistic Speech There are seven attempts to define the sophist in the dialogue, and each attempt is guided by a paradigm.
- The explicit narrative arc of the dialogue is to seek out a definition of the "sophist," a term that refers to professional teachers of rhetoric.
- So Parmenides' philosophy is referred to and brought up many times in the dialogue. The main point of the dialogue is to say just what a sophist is.
- The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric.