Dialogue

 1 Intro|        about the statesman and the philosopher, and by an allusion to his
 2 Intro|         contrast of the lawyer and philosopher in the Theaetetus. The following
 3 Intro|       Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became almost indistinguishable.
 4 Intro|        between the Sophist and the Philosopher, and had often heard the
 5 Intro|         the Sophist to be the true philosopher. One more feature of the
 6 Intro|        from falsehood? The Eleatic philosopher would have replied that
 7 Intro|            of philosophy. A modern philosopher, though emancipated from
 8 Intro|           as we know, is the first philosopher who distinctly enunciated
 9 Intro|        notion. As the Pre-Socratic philosopher failed to distinguish between
10 Intro|     Theodorus introduces as a true philosopher. Socrates, half in jest,
11 Intro|          are often deemed madmen. ‘Philosopher, statesman, sophist,’ says
12 Intro|              Give us both,’ so the philosopher must include both the moveable
13 Intro|          Sophist we have found the philosopher. He is the master who discerns
14 Intro|        obscurity of not-being, the philosopher is dark from excess of light.
15 Intro|        between the Sophist and the philosopher. Everything could be predicated
16 Intro|           the spirit of an ancient philosopher, Bishop Berkeley, feeling
17 Intro|          been handed down from one philosopher to another until they have
18 Intro|          he applies to every other philosopher.~Hegel would have insisted
19 Intro| possibility, in excluding from the philosopher’s vocabulary the word ‘inconceivable.’
20 Intro|        indifference to the poet or philosopher. We may need such a philosophy
21 Intro|       writings are arranged by the philosopher in different ways. What
22 Intro|    difficulty remembers. No former philosopher had ever carried the use
23 Intro|         Hegel, if not the greatest philosopher, is certainly the greatest
24  Soph|    Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher.~SOCRATES: Is he not rather
25  Soph|      SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher.~THEODORUS: What is your
26  Soph|          might.~STRANGER: Then the philosopher, who has the truest reverence
27  Soph|        have we not entertained the philosopher unawares?~THEAETETUS: What
28  Soph|      attributed by you only to the philosopher pure and true?~THEAETETUS:
29  Soph|          shall always discover the philosopher, if we look for him; like
30  Soph|           be so.~STRANGER: And the philosopher, always holding converse
31  Soph|         other.~STRANGER: Well, the philosopher may hereafter be more fully
32  Soph|          call the other? Is he the philosopher or the Sophist?~THEAETETUS:
33  Soph|           Sophist?~THEAETETUS: The philosopher he cannot be, for upon our