The Euthydemus of Plato

The Euthydemus of Plato
Author: Plato
Publsiher: Beaufort Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1973
Genre: Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN: UVA:X000502054

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Thinking of Death in Plato s Euthydemus

Thinking of Death in Plato s Euthydemus
Author: Gwenda-lin Grewal
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2022
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780192849571

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Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.

Euthydemus

Euthydemus
Author: Plato
Publsiher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783986472689

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Euthydemus Plato - The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic. But if the order of history were followed, they should be placed not at the end but at the beginning of them; for they belong to the age in which the human mind was first making the attempt to distinguish thought from sense, and to separate the universal from the particular or individual."Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the Euthydemus has in recent years attracted renewed attention. The dialogue, in which Socrates converses with two sophists whose techniques of verbal manipulation utterly disengage language from any grounding in stable meaning or reality, is in many ways a dialogue for our times. Contemporary questions of language and power permeate the speech and action of the dialogue. The two sophistsEuthydemus and his brother Dionysodorusexplicitly question whether speech has any connection to truth and specifically whether anything can be said about justice and nobility that cannot also be said about their opposites."

The Euthydemus of Plato

The Euthydemus of Plato
Author: Plato
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1881
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:717648067

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Euthydemus

Euthydemus
Author: Plato,Benjamin Jowett
Publsiher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1491001925

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Euthydemus By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Euthydemus or Euthydemos, written circa 384 BCE, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists. In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a visit he and various youths paid to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom were prominent Sophists from Chios and Thurii. The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentation and education with the methods of Sophism, to the detriment of the latter. Throughout the dialogue, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus continually attempt to ensnare Socrates with what are presented as deceptive and meaningless arguments, primarily to demonstrate their professed philosophical superiority. As in many of the Socratic dialogues, the two Sophists against whom Socrates argues were indeed real people. Euthydemus was somewhat famous at the time the dialogue was written, and is mentioned several times by both Plato and Aristotle. Likewise, Dionysodorus is mentioned by Xenophon.

Plato s Use of Fallacy RLE Plato

Plato s Use of Fallacy  RLE  Plato
Author: Rosamond Kent Sprague
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780415624046

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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 important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his fundamental philosophical views. Plato introduces them, the author maintains, for the purpose of working out their implications. Plato is thus able to expose them for what they are, to clear away possible lines of attack upon his own position, and even to show that when the proper correction is applied his own views receive support.

The Euthydemus of Plato with an intr and notes by G H Wells

The Euthydemus of Plato  with an intr  and notes  by G H  Wells
Author: Plato
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1881
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:600093255

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Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry

Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry
Author: Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110391381

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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 aspects. It aims to do justice to a major Platonic work which has so far received comparatively little treatment. Except for the sections of the dialogue in which Socrates presents an argument on the pursuit of eudaimonia, the Euthydemus seems to have been largely ignored. The reason for this is that much of the work’s philosophical import lies hidden underneath a veil of riotous comedy. This book shows how a reading of the dialogue as a whole, rather than a limited focus on the Socratic scenes, sheds light on the work’s central philosophical questions. It argues the Euthydemus points not only to the differences between Socrates and the sophists, but also to actual and alleged similarities between them. The framing scenes comment precisely on this aspect of the internal dialogue, with Crito still lumping together philosophy and eristic shortly before his discussion with Socrates comes to an end. Hence the question that permeates the Euthydemus is raised afresh at the end of the dialogue: what is properly to be termed philosophy?