Plato's Sophist Revisited

Plato’s Sophist Revisited......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
I. Defining Sophistry......Page 12
Thomas M. Robinson: Protagoras and the Definition of ‘Sophist’ in the Sophist......Page 14
Francesc Casadesús Bordoy: Why is it so Difficult to Catch a Sophist? Pl. Sph. 218d3 and 261a5......Page 26
Josep Monserrat Molas and Pablo Sandoval Villarroel: Plato’s Enquiry concerning the Sophist as a Way towards ‘Defining’ Philosophy......Page 40
1. Objective......Page 52
2. The beginning of the sixth definition......Page 53
3. καθαρμός......Page 55
4. A new division......Page 58
5. ἀνόητος......Page 59
6. Soul’s liberation......Page 61
7. ἀπαλλαγή......Page 62
9. A digression on money......Page 63
10. θαῦμα, φά(ντα)σμα......Page 64
11. Conclusion......Page 66
Michel Narcy: Remarks on the First Five Definitions of the Sophist (Soph. 221c – 235a)......Page 68
Remarks on these definitions......Page 72
The fourth and fifth definitions......Page 75
José Solana: Socrates and ‘Noble’ Sophistry (Sophist 226b –231c)......Page 82
a) The intrinsic value of the passage......Page 86
b) The passage in the context of the dialogue......Page 91
Kenneth Dorter: The Method of Division in the Sophist: Plato’s Second Deuteros Plous......Page 98
II. Parricide: Threat or Reality?......Page 112
Enrique Hülsz: Plato’s Ionian Muses: Sophist 242 d –e......Page 114
Denis O’Brien: Does Plato refute Parmenides?......Page 128
Additional Note: Gregory Vlastos on the ‘“Names” of Being in Parmenides’......Page 164
I. Setting the Common Frame......Page 168
II. The knowing mind’s commitment to reality: The Republic......Page 169
III. Every mind’s commitment to reality: the Sophist......Page 171
IV. The mind’s commitment to reality: an (apparent) objection......Page 173
V. The (apparent) objection requires the (apparent) parricide......Page 174
VI. On parts and wholes: Parmenides mistaken......Page 175
VIII. Movement as being......Page 176
VIII. Sliding from names to non-conventional meanings: kinds, forms, natures......Page 177
IX. Unqualified, unrestricted not-being and relative not-being......Page 178
X. The way of mortals and the sophist......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 182
Antonio Pedro Mesquita: Plato’s Eleaticism in the Sophist: The Doctrine of Non-Being......Page 186
Néstor-Luis Cordero: The relativization of “separation” (khorismos) in the Sophist......Page 198
III. Mimesis, Image and Logos......Page 214
Λόγος, true and false......Page 216
Theaetetus sits – Theaetetus flies......Page 223
Truth, logic and time......Page 230
Predication and ontology......Page 231
1. Introduction......Page 236
2. The Sophist in Proclus......Page 238
2.1. The Sophist in the Neo-Platonist curriculum......Page 239
2.2. The Sophist as an initiation to the Parmenides......Page 241
3.1. Senses of non-being......Page 243
3.2. Superiority of negation over affirmation......Page 246
3.3. Negation as a difference of sense......Page 249
3.4. Negation and senses of Difference......Page 251
David Ambuel: Difference in Kind: Observations on the Distinction of the Megista Gene......Page 258
Method of distinction......Page 263
“Rest” and “Motion” distinguished......Page 264
“Rest,” “Motion,” and “Being” distinguished......Page 265
“Same” and “other” distinguished from “rest” and “motion”......Page 266
“Being” distinguished from “same”......Page 268
“Other” distinguished from “being”......Page 270
Lidia Palumbo: Mimesis in the Sophist......Page 280
Bibliography......Page 290
Index Locorum......Page 302
Subject Index......Page 312