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ISBN10: 1930972040, ISBN13: 9781930972049, [publisher: Parmenides Publishing] Hardcover .
[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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 Publishing] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.3
[LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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]

Parmenides Pub 2007 Hardcover New 1st edition. 279 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.75 inches.

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