| #2183348 in Books | Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. | 2010-08-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.25 x5.50l,.30 | File type: PDF | 112 pages | ||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent insights into Plato's Euthydemus|By stephen liem|First, on the translation: very accessible, but I still prefer Sprague's translation in John Cooper's "Plato Complete Works". The latter flows better.
Now, second, on the accompanied commentary written by Nichols and Schaeffer. This is the reason why this book is worth it.
Several insights from the
From the Introduction:
"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 sophis...
You easily download any file type for your device.Euthydemus (Focus Philosophical Library) | Plato.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
