The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|           of youth,’ answering the Sophist according to his sophistry


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreF |      especially of the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Politicus; Mr. Robinson
  3 PreF |          of the ‘Theaetetus,’ the ‘Sophist,’ and the ‘Politicus;’ Professor
  4 PreF |        difficulty in admitting the Sophist or the Politicus. (The negative
  5 PreS |        imagined by the genius of a Sophist, may have passed into a
  6 PreS |     forgery of some rhetorician or sophist, we cannot agree with him
  7 PreS |          the Theaetetus, Philebus, Sophist, Politicus, Parmenides,
  8 PreS |    Philebus, or from either to the Sophist, or assume that the Parmenides,
  9 PreS |          or the Theaetetus and the Sophist, or the Meno and the Apology,
 10 PreS |          such as the Phaedrus, the Sophist, and the Parmenides, have


Cratylus
    Part
 11 Intro|          while the disciple of the Sophist and the follower of Heracleitus
 12 Intro|           once a philosopher and a sophist; for while wanting to rest
 13 Intro|  introductions to the Meno and the Sophist.) And in the Cratylus he
 14 Intro|       Heracleitus. Here, as in the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly
 15 Intro|             which reappears in the Sophist. And he proceeds to demolish,
 16 Intro|           but is treated of in the Sophist. These grounds are not sufficient
 17 Intro|        exorcised by some priest or sophist. ‘Go on; I am anxious to
 18 Intro|           perfect and accomplished Sophist and the great benefactor
 19 Text |           only find some priest or sophist who is skilled in purifications
 20 Text |           perfect and accomplished Sophist, and the great benefactor


Critias
    Part
 21 Intro|            Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher,


Euthydemus
    Part
 22 Intro|     illustrated by examples in the Sophist and Statesman; a scheme
 23 Intro|          genealogical trees of the Sophist and Statesman; a true doctrine
 24 Intro|          sentence are given in the Sophist; the different meanings
 25 Text |           sea-crab, who was also a Sophist, and appeared to have newly


Euthyphro
    Part
 26 Intro|           and self-confidence of a Sophist; no doubt that he is right
 27 Intro|      entered into his mind. Like a Sophist too, he is incapable either


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 28 Pre  |            in the treatment of the Sophist, in the satirical reasoning
 29 Pre  |            the Parmenides, and the Sophist, and Politicus, that no


Gorgias
    Part
 30 Intro|         represented; he is neither sophist nor philosopher, but man
 31 Intro|    Callicles, far more than in any sophist or rhetorician, is concentrated
 32 Intro|        used him, any more than the sophist or teacher can find fault
 33 Intro|            they cheat him. And the sophist and orator are in the same
 34 Intro|      sophistry of an ancient Greek sophist is nothing compared with
 35 Text |            the rhetorician and the sophist, but by reason of their
 36 Text |         like that of the professed sophist; for the sophists, although
 37 Text |         other? My good friend, the sophist and the rhetorician, as


Ion
    Part
 38 Intro|            from Homer, just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom,
 39 Intro|       rhetoric. Even more than the sophist he is incapable of appreciating


Laches
    Part
 40 Intro|      excellent Damon, musician and sophist, as a tutor for his son,
 41 Text |          suitable employment for a Sophist than for a great statesman


Menexenus
    Part
 42 Pre  |            in the treatment of the Sophist, in the satirical reasoning
 43 Pre  |            the Parmenides, and the Sophist, and Politicus, that no


Meno
    Part
 44 Intro|      Protagoras to the other great Sophist. He is the sophisticated
 45 Intro|           which they assume in the Sophist and Philebus, and the allusion
 46 Intro|   philosophy? (Parmenides.) In the Sophist the theory of ideas is spoken
 47 Intro|             if not opposed to him (Sophist). Nor in what may be termed
 48 Intro|            is relation’ of Plato’s Sophist. The grand description of


Parmenides
    Part
 49 Intro|        earlier philosophers in the Sophist: ‘They went on their way
 50 Intro|            Eleatic stranger in the Sophist opinions which went beyond
 51 Intro| condemnation on the Theaetetus and Sophist, and therefore on the Politicus (
 52 Intro|   mentioned in the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus, and the
 53 Intro|           the Politicus and in the Sophist. It is expressly spoken
 54 Intro|        parody of some contemporary Sophist. The interlocutor is not
 55 Intro|            the aim of Plato in the Sophist. But his view of their connexion
 56 Intro|            Being are raised in the Sophist; but there only as preliminary
 57 Intro|          which is commenced in the Sophist. Plato, in urging the difficulty
 58 Intro|          as an introduction to the Sophist. Long ago, in the Euthydemus,
 59 Intro|          the objective side in the Sophist: Being and Not-being are


Phaedrus
    Part
 60 Intro|      craftsman; the eighth, into a sophist or demagogue; the ninth,
 61 Intro|            nature of the good; the Sophist between the detection of
 62 Intro|       between the detection of the Sophist and the correlation of ideas.
 63 Intro|       abstract speculations of the Sophist or the Philebus. Taking
 64 Text |            to the eighth that of a sophist or demagogue; to the ninth


Philebus
    Part
 65 Intro|            idea of good; as in the Sophist and Politicus he insists
 66 Intro|            the Phaedrus and of the Sophist, is found the germ of the
 67 Intro|           as Plato has done in the Sophist, how large an element negation
 68 Intro|          the ‘materialists’ in the Sophist.~On the whole, this discussion
 69 Intro|          in the Parmenides and the Sophist. The principle of the one
 70 Intro|     illustrated by examples in the Sophist and Statesman. Notwithstanding
 71 Intro|          and most exact.’ From the Sophist and Statesman we know that
 72 Intro|          such as the Philebus, the Sophist, and the Statesman, as studies
 73 Intro|       argues against the so-called sophist that pleasure and pain are
 74 Intro|    discussion of the same subject (Sophist). To attempt further to


Protagoras
    Part
 75 Intro|      between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias—‘
 76 Intro|        imagine that Protagoras the Sophist ought always to be in the
 77 Text |        designated?~They call him a Sophist, Socrates, he replied.~Then
 78 Text |          him in the character of a Sophist?~Certainly.~But suppose
 79 Text |        suppose that he will make a Sophist of me.~By the gods, I said,
 80 Text |     Hellenes in the character of a Sophist?~Indeed, Socrates, to confess
 81 Text |           of a man whom you call a Sophist. And yet I hardly think
 82 Text |         think that you know what a Sophist is; and if not, then you
 83 Text |          What is the wisdom of the Sophist, and what is the manufacture
 84 Text |         involved: Of what does the Sophist make a man talk eloquently?
 85 Text |           Then about what does the Sophist make him eloquent? Must
 86 Text |         And what is that which the Sophist knows and makes his disciple
 87 Text |            him: and you call him a Sophist, but are manifestly ignorant
 88 Text |      manifestly ignorant of what a Sophist is; and yet you are going
 89 Text |       words.~I proceeded: Is not a Sophist, Hippocrates, one who deals
 90 Text |          care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when
 91 Text |   conspiracies. Now the art of the Sophist is, as I believe, of great
 92 Text |        Megara, who is a first-rate Sophist. Your own Agathocles pretended
 93 Text |          but was really an eminent Sophist; also Pythocleides the Cean;
 94 Text |         acknowledge myself to be a Sophist and instructor of mankind;
 95 Text |         acknowledgment that I am a Sophist. And I have been now many
 96 Text |           of Hellas that you are a Sophist or teacher of virtue and


The Republic
    Book
 97 6    |          what opinion of any other Sophist, or of any private person,


The Sophist
    Part
 98 Intro|           place or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we are
 99 Intro|        Hegel seemed to find in the Sophist the crown and summit of
100 Intro|            been written unless the Sophist and Statesman had preceded?
101 Intro|           in the characters of the Sophist. The most noticeable point
102 Intro|           his teaching; and in the Sophist and Statesman, as well as
103 Intro|           or the comparison of the Sophist to a painter or maker (compare
104 Intro|        passion,’ and the like.~The Sophist, like the Phaedrus, has
105 Intro|            is the search after the Sophist, the second is the enquiry
106 Intro|       dialectical net in which the Sophist has hidden himself. He is
107 Intro|         false as well as true. The Sophist, drawn out of the shelter
108 Intro|        character attributed to the Sophist: (II) the dialectical method: (
109 Intro|             V) the relation of the Sophist to other dialogues.~I. The
110 Intro|            other dialogues.~I. The Sophist in Plato is the master of
111 Intro|           personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher
112 Intro|          other descriptions of the Sophist which occur in the Platonic
113 Intro|           poets, sophists. But the Sophist is the Proteus who takes
114 Intro|        maintain (1) that the term ‘Sophist’ is not the name of a particular
115 Intro|        mockery or irony.~The term ‘Sophist’ is one of those words of
116 Intro|           the later Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became
117 Intro|            appeared; for the term ‘Sophist’ would hardly have been
118 Intro|          is, not whether the word ‘Sophist’ has all these senses, but
119 Intro|            2. The use of the term ‘Sophist’ in the dialogues of Plato
120 Intro|              I confess that I am a Sophist,’ he implies that the art
121 Intro|          he is going to be made ‘a Sophist,’ would lose their point,
122 Intro|            of the use of the term ‘Sophist’ in modern times. The truth
123 Intro|           are respectable men.~The Sophist, in the dialogue which is
124 Intro|         the difference between the Sophist and the Philosopher, and
125 Intro|     injurious reflection about the Sophist. They are both hunters after
126 Intro|       tyrants and thieves, and the Sophist is the cousin of the parasite
127 Intro|      Socratic or Eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of
128 Intro|            reject the claim of the Sophist to be the true philosopher.
129 Intro|         Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome
130 Intro|   abscissio infinti,’ by which the Sophist is taken, is a real and
131 Intro|        really mean to say that the Sophist or the Statesman can be
132 Intro|            to transfix the Eristic Sophist with weapons borrowed from
133 Intro|        damaging reflections on the Sophist and all his kith and kin,
134 Intro|          unfair against the outlaw Sophist.~III. The puzzle about ‘
135 Intro|       error. If we were met by the Sophist’s objection, the reply would
136 Intro|           both in the Cratylus and Sophist. ‘Theaetetus is flying,’
137 Intro|        Plato, in the Philebus, the Sophist, and the Laws, extends to
138 Intro|     negative given by Plato in the Sophist is a true but partial one;
139 Intro|        Plato to metaphysics in the Sophist, is not his explanation
140 Intro|          the Theaetetus and in the Sophist he recognizes that he is
141 Intro|            their hands, and in the Sophist as incapable of argument.
142 Intro|         anonymous memorial.~V. The Sophist is the sequel of the Theaetetus,
143 Intro|       reality in Not-being. In the Sophist the question is taken up
144 Intro|             To the Parmenides, the Sophist stands in a less defined
145 Intro|          of Unity or Being. In the Sophist the same contradictions
146 Intro|            Philosopher, statesman, sophist,’ says Socrates, repeating
147 Intro|            he says, about the name Sophist, but we may not be equally
148 Intro|            light the nature of the Sophist. Like the angler, he is
149 Intro|          Have we not unearthed the Sophist?~But he is a many-sided
150 Intro|            the seller of virtue, a Sophist.~Again, there is a third
151 Intro|           a third line, in which a Sophist may be traced. For is he
152 Intro|           traced. For is he less a Sophist when, instead of exporting
153 Intro|         that we have yet found the Sophist, or that his will ultimately
154 Intro|        them for realities: and the Sophist pretends to know all things,
155 Intro|            of his pretensions. The Sophist, then, has not real knowledge;
156 Intro|          works to the eye. And the Sophist also uses illusions, and
157 Intro|            But I cannot.’ Then the Sophist must be left in his hole.
158 Intro|           in which the many-headed Sophist has entangled us. He will
159 Intro|     unawares; in seeking after the Sophist we have found the philosopher.
160 Intro|        true dialectician. Like the Sophist, he is hard to recognize,
161 Intro|          the opposite reasons; the Sophist runs away into the obscurity
162 Intro|       return to our pursuit of the Sophist.~Agreeing in the truth of
163 Intro|      continuing the hunt after the Sophist we have to examine the nature
164 Intro|         were no communion. For the Sophist, although he can no longer
165 Intro|            were going to place the Sophist in one of them, a doubt
166 Intro|         have acknowledged that the Sophist is to be found in the class
167 Intro|           present concern, for the Sophist has no claims to science
168 Intro|        maker of the shorter is the Sophist, whose art may be traced
169 Intro|         and falsehood, between the Sophist and the philosopher. Everything
170 Intro|          in which he lived. In the Sophist, as in the Cratylus, he
171 Intro|        family. For example, in the Sophist Plato begins with the abstract
172 Intro|         object to the subject. The Sophist first uttered the word ‘
173 Text |                                    SOPHIST~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
174 Text |   THEODORUS: What terms?~SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher.~
175 Text |     enquire into the nature of the Sophist, first of the three: I should
176 Text |       endeavour to find out what a Sophist is.~THEAETETUS: By all means.~
177 Text |       STRANGER: The angler and the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: In what way
178 Text |       hunters.~THEAETETUS: How the Sophist? Of the other we have spoken.~
179 Text |      STRANGER: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting
180 Text |        that we have discovered the Sophist: which is, as I conceive,
181 Text |         THEAETETUS: He must be the Sophist, whom we are seeking; no
182 Text |           out to be our friend the Sophist, whose art may now be traced
183 Text |            would still be called a Sophist?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
184 Text |        answer: he is the wonderful Sophist, of whom we are in pursuit,
185 Text |   prerogative.~THEAETETUS: Yet the Sophist has a certain likeness to
186 Text |    describe the real nature of the Sophist.~STRANGER: You naturally
187 Text |          statements concerning the Sophist; there was one thing which
188 Text |         course.~STRANGER: Then the Sophist has been shown to have a
189 Text |            to tell me, whether the Sophist is not visibly a magician
190 Text |          into the net, and, if the Sophist does not run away from us,
191 Text |            them I should place the Sophist, nor am I even now able
192 Text |          must acknowledge that the Sophist is a clever rogue who will
193 Text |            the acquaintance of the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: Why do you
194 Text |         opposites, the many-headed Sophist has compelled us, quite
195 Text |    STRANGER: There is not; but the Sophist will deny these statements.
196 Text |           we ought to do about the Sophist; for if we persist in looking
197 Text |          cannot possibly catch the Sophist.~STRANGER: Shall we then
198 Text |             and in looking for the Sophist have we not entertained
199 Text |          we look for him; like the Sophist, he is not easily discovered,
200 Text |      reason?~STRANGER: Because the Sophist runs away into the darkness
201 Text |           we are disposed; but the Sophist must clearly not be allowed
202 Text |          very nature for which the Sophist compelled us to search.~
203 Text |     STRANGER: Into that region the Sophist, as we said, made his escape,
204 Text |       therein we will imprison the Sophist, if he deserves it, or,
205 Text |            what was said about the Sophist at first, that he was of
206 Text |          which we should place the Sophist.~THEAETETUS: We did say
207 Text |            what preceded, that the Sophist was lurking in one of the
208 Text |            to that which holds the Sophist, until we have stripped
209 Text |             Yes.~STRANGER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in
210 Text |           present concern, for the Sophist was classed with imitators
211 Text |          he the philosopher or the Sophist?~THEAETETUS: The philosopher
212 Text |      terming him the true and very Sophist.~STRANGER: Shall we bind
213 Text |           one who affirms the real Sophist to be of this blood and


The Statesman
    Part
214 Intro|            the Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency
215 Intro|            single dialogue. In the Sophist and Statesman especially
216 Intro|   concerned, not with the original Sophist, but with the sophistry
217 Intro|          stranger, here, as in the Sophist, has no appropriate character,
218 Intro|         made to discussions in the Sophist; and this, perhaps, is the
219 Intro|      carried on, like that for the Sophist, by the method of dichotomy,
220 Intro|        Philosopher, as well as the Sophist.~SOCRATES: Does the great
221 Intro|            the Statesman after the Sophist; his path they must determine,
222 Intro|         remarked in discussing the Sophist, the dialectical method
223 Intro|           our discussion about the Sophist. At present I am content
224 Intro|         other discussion about the Sophist and not-being, were tedious
225 Intro|           but a dreamer, a prating Sophist and a corruptor of youth;
226 Intro|           many windings, the term ‘Sophist’ comes home to them.~And
227 Intro|     statesman, no less than of the Sophist, is quite perfect.’~...~
228 Intro|    consider the genuineness of the Sophist and Statesman, which can
229 Intro|           forgotten, either in the Sophist or in the Statesman. The
230 Intro|           or in the Statesman. The Sophist contains four examples of
231 Intro|           of descent we detect the Sophist. In the Statesman the king
232 Intro|        into a beneficent king. The sophist too is no longer, as in
233 Intro|       naturally connected with the Sophist. At first sight we are surprised
234 Intro|         both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited, first, in
235 Intro|       doubt the genuineness of the Sophist and Statesman, if they had
236 Intro|          reasons for defending the Sophist and Statesman may be given
237 Intro|          favour. If we suppose the Sophist and Politicus to stand halfway
238 Text |     Philosopher, as well as of the Sophist.~SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman,
239 Text |          of the Sophist.~SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher!
240 Text |        still less can I. After the Sophist, then, I think that the
241 Text |           in the enquiry about the Sophist? (Compare Sophist.)~YOUNG
242 Text |        about the Sophist? (Compare Sophist.)~YOUNG SOCRATES: What?~
243 Text |        then, as in the case of the Sophist we extorted the inference
244 Text |          discussion concerning the Sophist and the being of not-being.
245 Text |    physician, but a cloudy prating sophist;—further, on the ground
246 Text |        YOUNG SOCRATES: The name of Sophist after many windings in the
247 Text |     statesman, no less than of the Sophist, is quite perfect.~THE END~      >


The Symposium
    Part
248 Text |            an enchanter, sorcerer, sophist. He is by nature neither
249 Text |       authority of an accomplished sophist: ‘Of that, Socrates, you


Theaetetus
    Part
250 Intro|          of the dialogue, with the Sophist, to which in many respects
251 Intro|      inquiry into not-being in the Sophist supplements the question
252 Intro|           the probability that the Sophist and Politicus, which differ
253 Intro|       Parmenides compared with the Sophist, would probably imply that
254 Intro|        Both the Parmenides and the Sophist, and still more the Theaetetus,
255 Intro|     between the Theaetetus and the Sophist; upon this view, the Sophist
256 Intro|       Sophist; upon this view, the Sophist may be regarded as the answer
257 Intro|          The day comes, and in the Sophist the three friends again
258 Intro|       education (compare Republic, Sophist), and accords with the ironical
259 Intro|          the various characters of sophist, lawyer, statesman, speaker,
260 Intro|         rest, as in the Gorgias or Sophist; but in other dialogues
261 Intro|      especially in the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Laws, of certain impenetrable
262 Intro|        compare Introduction to the Sophist).~And not only was there
263 Intro|           soul by the words of the Sophist; and the new state or opinion
264 Intro|            doctrine of rest in the Sophist; but at present he does
265 Intro|          generalization. As in the Sophist, he is laying the foundation
266 Intro|         further carried out in the Sophist. This is implied in the
267 Intro|         and crowns the work in the Sophist.~Many (1) fine expressions,
268 Text |            to be effected, and the sophist accomplishes by words the
269 Text |             And in like manner the Sophist who is able to train his


Timaeus
    Part
270 Intro|            with the ‘other’ of the Sophist, which is the principle
271 Intro|         abhors a vacuum, as in the Sophist he also denies the reality
272 Intro|          by them; and in language (Sophist) which may be compared with