ISBN10: 1930972040, ISBN13: 9781930972049, [publisher: Parmenides Publishing June 2007] Hardcover used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
[Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

Parmenides Publishing, Date: 2007-06-15. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2007. Parmenides Publishing ISBN 1930972040 9781930972049 [US]

ISBN10: 1930972040, ISBN13: 9781930972049, [publisher: Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas] Hardcover Hardcover. The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretation. Here is a new translation of this important late Platonic dialogue, with a comprehensive commentary that reverses the dominant trends in the scholarship of the last fifty years. The Sophist is shown to be not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, which reveals both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Platos criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry. The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. In a new translation and interpretation, this late dialogue is shown to be a defense of not a departure from Platos metaphysics. The book is intended to provide a complete interpretation of Plato's Sophist as a whole. Central to the methodology adopted is the assumption that all elements of the dialogue to be understood must be understood in the context of the dialogue as a whole and in its relation to other works in the Platonic corpus. Three main points are argued: 1) the dialogue does not present a ...
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ISBN10: 1930972040, ISBN13: 9781930972049, [publisher: Parmenides Pub] Hardcover 1st edition. 279 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]