Dialogue

  1 Intro|        Plato is the master of the art of illusion; the charlatan,
  2 Intro|         the sense of a ‘master in art,’ without any bad meaning
  3 Intro|     Sophist,’ he implies that the art which he professes has already
  4 Intro|       want of the higher Platonic art in the Eleatic Stranger
  5 Intro|         other retail traders; his art is thus deprived of the
  6 Intro|          division under which his art may be also supposed to
  7 Intro|       course of events to nature, art, and chance. Who they were,
  8 Intro|        and there are two kinds of art,—productive art, which includes
  9 Intro|          kinds of art,—productive art, which includes husbandry,
 10 Intro|       imitations; and acquisitive art, which includes learning,
 11 Intro|        angler’s is an acquisitive art, and acquisition may be
 12 Intro|        definition of the angler’s art.~And now by the help of
 13 Intro|      private practitioners of the art, some bring gifts to those
 14 Intro|          descent. The acquisitive art had a branch of exchange
 15 Intro|        one kind may be termed the art of display, and another
 16 Intro|          display, and another the art of selling learning; and
 17 Intro|    descended from the acquisitive art in the combative line, through
 18 Intro|    education, the nobly-descended art of Sophistry, which is engaged
 19 Intro|           prove to be the desired art of education; but neither
 20 Intro|           in the professor of any art having so many names and
 21 Intro|      imply that the nature of his art is not understood? And that
 22 Intro|          what is the trick of his art, and why does he receive
 23 Intro|         there are two kinds,— the art of making likenesses, and
 24 Intro|        making likenesses, and the art of making appearances. The
 25 Intro|           is no such thing as the art of image-making and phantastic,
 26 Intro|           class of imitators. All art was divided originally by
 27 Intro|     shorter is the Sophist, whose art may be traced as being the /
 28 Intro|            phantastic or unreal / art of image-making.~...~In
 29 Intro|         are now reconciled by the art of music’ (Symp.). He does
 30 Intro|          the human faculties; the art of measuring shows us what
 31  Soph|        whether he is a man having art or not having art, but some
 32  Soph|          having art or not having art, but some other power.~THEAETETUS:
 33  Soph|            He is clearly a man of art.~STRANGER: And of arts there
 34  Soph|         mortal creatures, and the art of constructing or moulding
 35  Soph|         vessels, and there is the art of imitation—all these may
 36  Soph|         of productive or creative art.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
 37  Soph|   branches there appears to be an art which may be called acquisitive.~
 38  Soph|          class shall we place the art of the angler?~THEAETETUS:
 39  Soph|        there is no reason why the art of hunting should not be
 40  Soph|          the name of the angler’s art, but about the definition
 41  Soph|           itself. One half of all art was acquisitive—half of
 42  Soph|           half of the acquisitive art was conquest or taking by
 43  Soph|        from below upwards, is the art which we have been seeking,
 44  Soph|          be supposed to have some art.~THEAETETUS: What art?~STRANGER:
 45  Soph|        some art.~THEAETETUS: What art?~STRANGER: By heaven, they
 46  Soph|         angler, starting from the art of acquiring, take the same
 47  Soph|       diverge when they reach the art of animal hunting; the one
 48  Soph|       tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting
 49  Soph|           good.~STRANGER: But the art of the lawyer, of the popular
 50  Soph|           popular orator, and the art of conversation may be called
 51  Soph|         be called in one word the art of persuasion.~THEAETETUS:
 52  Soph|           then, to be the amatory art.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
 53  Soph|         possessing flattery or an art of making things pleasant.~
 54  Soph|         Then now, Theaetetus, his art may be traced as a branch
 55  Soph|         of a great and many-sided art; and if we look back at
 56  Soph|          two sorts of acquisitive art; the one concerned with
 57  Soph|        were.~STRANGER: And of the art of exchange there are two
 58  Soph|         Next, we will suppose the art of selling to be divided
 59  Soph|         part be fairly termed the art of display? And there is
 60  Soph|         friend the Sophist, whose art may now be traced from the
 61  Soph|        may now be traced from the art of acquisition through exchange,
 62  Soph|           part of the acquisitive art which exchanges, and of
 63  Soph|         the combative or fighting art.~THEAETETUS: There was.~
 64  Soph|      random, and without rules of art, is recognized by the reasoning
 65  Soph|        which proceeds by rules of art to dispute about justice
 66  Soph|          was saying, there is one art which includes all of them,
 67  Soph|           of them, ought not that art to have one name?~THEAETETUS:
 68  Soph|           what is the name of the art?~STRANGER: The art of discerning
 69  Soph|         of the art?~STRANGER: The art of discerning or discriminating.~
 70  Soph|         by the not very dignified art of the bath-man; and there
 71  Soph|          but then the dialectical art never considers whether
 72  Soph|         of hunting, the general’s art, at all more decorous than
 73  Soph|          or inanimate bodies, the art of dialectic is in no wise
 74  Soph|           is not chastisement the art which is most required?~
 75  Soph|        True.~STRANGER: And of the art of instruction, shall we
 76  Soph|          certainly imply that the art of instruction is also twofold,
 77  Soph|         are the ministers of this art? I am afraid to say the
 78  Soph|          that from the discerning art comes purification, and
 79  Soph|        and me the nobly-descended art of Sophistry.~THEAETETUS:
 80  Soph|         who professed the eristic art.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
 81  Soph|         when the professor of any art has one name and many kinds
 82  Soph|         not also teach others the art of disputation?~THEAETETUS:
 83  Soph|        STRANGER: In all and every art, what the craftsman ought
 84  Soph|     things. In a word, is not the art of disputation a power of
 85  Soph|           why has the sophistical art such a mysterious power?~
 86  Soph|         be willing to learn their art.~THEAETETUS: They certainly
 87  Soph|           all things, by a single art.~THEAETETUS: All things?~
 88  Soph|           he who professes by one art to make all things is really
 89  Soph|     painter, and by the painter’s art makes resemblances of real
 90  Soph|       supposed to be an imitative art of reasoning? Is it not
 91  Soph|         there not be another such art?~STRANGER: But as time goes
 92  Soph|           divide the image-making art, and go down into the net,
 93  Soph|         recesses of the imitative art, and secretes himself in
 94  Soph|        divisions of the imitative art, but I am not as yet able
 95  Soph|    speaking?~STRANGER: One is the art of likeness-making;—generally
 96  Soph|        that part of the imitative art which is concerned with
 97  Soph|       with making such images the art of likeness-making?~THEAETETUS:
 98  Soph|           fairly call the sort of art, which produces an appearance
 99  Soph|          not an image, phantastic art?~THEAETETUS: Most fairly.~
100  Soph|         kinds of image-making—the art of making likenesses, and
101  Soph| likenesses, and phantastic or the art of making appearances?~THEAETETUS:
102  Soph|          him that he professes an art of making appearances, he
103  Soph|   difficulty is how to define his art without falling into a contradiction.~
104  Soph|         an illusion, and that his art is illusory, do we mean
105  Soph|       that our soul is led by his art to think falsely, or what
106  Soph|       will unite with what? Or is art required in order to do
107  Soph|       order to do so?~THEAETETUS: Art is required.~STRANGER: What
108  Soph|          required.~STRANGER: What art?~THEAETETUS: The art of
109  Soph|         What art?~THEAETETUS: The art of grammar.~STRANGER: And
110  Soph|        low?—Is not he who has the art to know what sounds mingle,
111  Soph|           to be generally true of art or the absence of art.~THEAETETUS:
112  Soph|          of art or the absence of art.~THEAETETUS: Of course.~
113  Soph|           true.~STRANGER: And the art of dialectic would be attributed
114  Soph|       image-making and phantastic art, in which we have placed
115  Soph|          condition of the mind an art of deception may arise.~
116  Soph|  divisions of the likeness-making art?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
117  Soph|         You may remember that all art was originally divided by
118  Soph|        But now that the imitative art has enclosed him, it is
119  Soph|        must begin by dividing the art of creation; for imitation
120  Soph|     nature are the work of divine art, and that things which are
121  Soph|          these are works of human art. And so there are two kinds
122  Soph| likenesses; and so the productive art is again divided into two
123  Soph|        what shall we say of human art? Do we not make one house
124  Soph|         not make one house by the art of building, and another
125  Soph|      building, and another by the art of drawing, which is a sort
126  Soph|         the thing, with which the art of making the thing is concerned,
127  Soph|       again divide the phantastic art.~THEAETETUS: Where shall
128  Soph|       this part of the phantastic art.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
129  Soph|          this, then, be named the art of mimicry, and this the
130  Soph|        traces the pedigree of his art as follows—who, belonging
131  Soph|        dissembling section of the art of causing self-contradiction,