Sophist (Hackett Classics) - Softcover

Plato

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087220202X ISBN 13: 9780872202023

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1993

Synopsis

A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporary and analytical philosophers. White's extensive introduction explores the dialogue's central themes, its connection with related discussions in other dialogues, and its implicaiton for the interpretation of Plato's metaphysics.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

Review:

This translation of one of Plato's most challenging dialogues is so unpretentiously honest that it risks undercutting its own significant merits. As far as I can judge, it will prove most helpful not only to students of classical studies and philosophy, but to anybody who is interested in the questions treated by the Sophist. Clarity seems to be the editor and translator's aim, and it is well achieved in: (a) an introduction which without philosophical arm-twisting brings in the views of some modern philosophers on negative and false statement (as inconclusive as Plato's), (b) a select bibliography and a summary of the arguments which students will find useful, and (c) a translation of the text in civilized modern English. Space forbids the adduction of parallel passages. However, I do not hesitate to claim that in terms of accuracy and credible conversational style, the translation will stand comparision with those of A.E. Taylor and F.M. Cornford. --David Rankin, in The Classical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 087220202X
• ISBN 13: 9780872202023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112