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Pages: 234
Authors: Plato
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-01 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and phil
Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book provides an interpretation of Plato’s Euthydemus as a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspec
The Socratic Movement
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Paul A. Vander Waerdt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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14 essays which examine the efforts of Socrates' associates to preserve his speeches for posterity. The papers place particular emphasis on the non-Platonic tra
Plato's Use of Fallacy (RLE: Plato)
Language: en
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There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an impor
Plato's Ethics
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Terence Irwin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "How ought we to live?" It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; hi