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Sophist
Plato · Classical · c. 360 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
7 chapters
Plato's central late dialogue on being and not-being — using the chase of the elusive 'sophist' as the occasion to confront the philosophy of Parmenides head-on.
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Contents
- 1The Question: What Is the Sophist?
- 2Six Definitions by Division
- 3The Sophist as Image-Maker — The Problem of Not-Being
- 4The Battle of Gods and Giants over Being
- 5The Communion of Forms
- 6The Five Greatest Kinds: Being, Sameness, Difference, Motion, Rest
- 7True and False Statement, and the Final Definition
