Dialogue

  1 Intro|         place or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we are
  2 Intro|      Hegel seemed to find in the Sophist the crown and summit of
  3 Intro|          been written unless the Sophist and Statesman had preceded?
  4 Intro|         in the characters of the Sophist. The most noticeable point
  5 Intro|         his teaching; and in the Sophist and Statesman, as well as
  6 Intro|         or the comparison of the Sophist to a painter or maker (compare
  7 Intro|      passion,’ and the like.~The Sophist, like the Phaedrus, has
  8 Intro|          is the search after the Sophist, the second is the enquiry
  9 Intro|     dialectical net in which the Sophist has hidden himself. He is
 10 Intro|       false as well as true. The Sophist, drawn out of the shelter
 11 Intro|      character attributed to the Sophist: (II) the dialectical method: (
 12 Intro|           V) the relation of the Sophist to other dialogues.~I. The
 13 Intro|          other dialogues.~I. The Sophist in Plato is the master of
 14 Intro|         personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher
 15 Intro|        other descriptions of the Sophist which occur in the Platonic
 16 Intro|         poets, sophists. But the Sophist is the Proteus who takes
 17 Intro|      maintain (1) that the term ‘Sophist’ is not the name of a particular
 18 Intro|      mockery or irony.~The term ‘Sophist’ is one of those words of
 19 Intro|         the later Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became
 20 Intro|          appeared; for the term ‘Sophist’ would hardly have been
 21 Intro|        is, not whether the word ‘Sophist’ has all these senses, but
 22 Intro|          2. The use of the term ‘Sophist’ in the dialogues of Plato
 23 Intro|            I confess that I am a Sophist,’ he implies that the art
 24 Intro|        he is going to be made ‘a Sophist,’ would lose their point,
 25 Intro|          of the use of the term ‘Sophist’ in modern times. The truth
 26 Intro|         are respectable men.~The Sophist, in the dialogue which is
 27 Intro|       the difference between the Sophist and the Philosopher, and
 28 Intro|   injurious reflection about the Sophist. They are both hunters after
 29 Intro|     tyrants and thieves, and the Sophist is the cousin of the parasite
 30 Intro|    Socratic or Eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of
 31 Intro|          reject the claim of the Sophist to be the true philosopher.
 32 Intro|       Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome
 33 Intro| abscissio infinti,’ by which the Sophist is taken, is a real and
 34 Intro|      really mean to say that the Sophist or the Statesman can be
 35 Intro|          to transfix the Eristic Sophist with weapons borrowed from
 36 Intro|      damaging reflections on the Sophist and all his kith and kin,
 37 Intro|        unfair against the outlaw Sophist.~III. The puzzle about ‘
 38 Intro|     error. If we were met by the Sophist’s objection, the reply would
 39 Intro|         both in the Cratylus and Sophist. ‘Theaetetus is flying,’
 40 Intro|      Plato, in the Philebus, the Sophist, and the Laws, extends to
 41 Intro|   negative given by Plato in the Sophist is a true but partial one;
 42 Intro|      Plato to metaphysics in the Sophist, is not his explanation
 43 Intro|        the Theaetetus and in the Sophist he recognizes that he is
 44 Intro|          their hands, and in the Sophist as incapable of argument.
 45 Intro|       anonymous memorial.~V. The Sophist is the sequel of the Theaetetus,
 46 Intro|     reality in Not-being. In the Sophist the question is taken up
 47 Intro|           To the Parmenides, the Sophist stands in a less defined
 48 Intro|        of Unity or Being. In the Sophist the same contradictions
 49 Intro|          Philosopher, statesman, sophist,’ says Socrates, repeating
 50 Intro|          he says, about the name Sophist, but we may not be equally
 51 Intro|          light the nature of the Sophist. Like the angler, he is
 52 Intro|        Have we not unearthed the Sophist?~But he is a many-sided
 53 Intro|          the seller of virtue, a Sophist.~Again, there is a third
 54 Intro|         a third line, in which a Sophist may be traced. For is he
 55 Intro|         traced. For is he less a Sophist when, instead of exporting
 56 Intro|       that we have yet found the Sophist, or that his will ultimately
 57 Intro|      them for realities: and the Sophist pretends to know all things,
 58 Intro|          of his pretensions. The Sophist, then, has not real knowledge;
 59 Intro|        works to the eye. And the Sophist also uses illusions, and
 60 Intro|          But I cannot.’ Then the Sophist must be left in his hole.
 61 Intro|         in which the many-headed Sophist has entangled us. He will
 62 Intro|   unawares; in seeking after the Sophist we have found the philosopher.
 63 Intro|      true dialectician. Like the Sophist, he is hard to recognize,
 64 Intro|        the opposite reasons; the Sophist runs away into the obscurity
 65 Intro|     return to our pursuit of the Sophist.~Agreeing in the truth of
 66 Intro|    continuing the hunt after the Sophist we have to examine the nature
 67 Intro|       were no communion. For the Sophist, although he can no longer
 68 Intro|          were going to place the Sophist in one of them, a doubt
 69 Intro|       have acknowledged that the Sophist is to be found in the class
 70 Intro|         present concern, for the Sophist has no claims to science
 71 Intro|      maker of the shorter is the Sophist, whose art may be traced
 72 Intro|       and falsehood, between the Sophist and the philosopher. Everything
 73 Intro|        in which he lived. In the Sophist, as in the Cratylus, he
 74 Intro|      family. For example, in the Sophist Plato begins with the abstract
 75 Intro|       object to the subject. The Sophist first uttered the word ‘
 76  Soph|                                  SOPHIST~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
 77  Soph| THEODORUS: What terms?~SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher.~
 78  Soph|   enquire into the nature of the Sophist, first of the three: I should
 79  Soph|     endeavour to find out what a Sophist is.~THEAETETUS: By all means.~
 80  Soph|     STRANGER: The angler and the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: In what way
 81  Soph|     hunters.~THEAETETUS: How the Sophist? Of the other we have spoken.~
 82  Soph|    STRANGER: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting
 83  Soph|      that we have discovered the Sophist: which is, as I conceive,
 84  Soph|       THEAETETUS: He must be the Sophist, whom we are seeking; no
 85  Soph|         out to be our friend the Sophist, whose art may now be traced
 86  Soph|          would still be called a Sophist?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
 87  Soph|      answer: he is the wonderful Sophist, of whom we are in pursuit,
 88  Soph| prerogative.~THEAETETUS: Yet the Sophist has a certain likeness to
 89  Soph|  describe the real nature of the Sophist.~STRANGER: You naturally
 90  Soph|        statements concerning the Sophist; there was one thing which
 91  Soph|       course.~STRANGER: Then the Sophist has been shown to have a
 92  Soph|          to tell me, whether the Sophist is not visibly a magician
 93  Soph|        into the net, and, if the Sophist does not run away from us,
 94  Soph|          them I should place the Sophist, nor am I even now able
 95  Soph|        must acknowledge that the Sophist is a clever rogue who will
 96  Soph|          the acquaintance of the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: Why do you
 97  Soph|       opposites, the many-headed Sophist has compelled us, quite
 98  Soph|  STRANGER: There is not; but the Sophist will deny these statements.
 99  Soph|         we ought to do about the Sophist; for if we persist in looking
100  Soph|        cannot possibly catch the Sophist.~STRANGER: Shall we then
101  Soph|           and in looking for the Sophist have we not entertained
102  Soph|        we look for him; like the Sophist, he is not easily discovered,
103  Soph|    reason?~STRANGER: Because the Sophist runs away into the darkness
104  Soph|         we are disposed; but the Sophist must clearly not be allowed
105  Soph|        very nature for which the Sophist compelled us to search.~
106  Soph|   STRANGER: Into that region the Sophist, as we said, made his escape,
107  Soph|     therein we will imprison the Sophist, if he deserves it, or,
108  Soph|          what was said about the Sophist at first, that he was of
109  Soph|        which we should place the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: We did say
110  Soph|          what preceded, that the Sophist was lurking in one of the
111  Soph|          to that which holds the Sophist, until we have stripped
112  Soph|           Yes.~STRANGER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in
113  Soph|         present concern, for the Sophist was classed with imitators
114  Soph|        he the philosopher or the Sophist?~THEAETETUS: The philosopher
115  Soph|    terming him the true and very Sophist.~STRANGER: Shall we bind
116  Soph|         one who affirms the real Sophist to be of this blood and