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Socrates and the Sophists: Plato's Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias and Cratylus New Edition
Author(s): Plato, (Author)
- Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2010
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 230 pages
- ISBN-10: 1585103624
- ISBN-13: 9781585103621
Book Description
This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay.
Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
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About the Author
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle’s “Physics,” “Metaphysics” and “On the Soul” and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” and “Poetics”, and Plato’s “Theaetetus” and “Republic.”
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle’s “Physics,” “Metaphysics” and “On the Soul” and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” and “Poetics”, and Plato’s “Theaetetus” and “Republic.”
