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Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry A Reading of Plato's 'Euthydemus'

:	Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi
:	Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry A Reading of Plato's 'Euthydemus'
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110391381
:	Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und GeschichteISSN
:	1
:	CHF 102.10
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:	Klassische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

:	242
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< doctype html public '-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en'>This book provides an interpretation of Plato’sEuthydemusas a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspects. It sheds new light on some old questions, including the relation between knowledge, virtue and happiness. Further, it pays due attention to the arguments of the sophists that are often neglected, focusing on the similarities between Socrates and his eristic opponents.

	Preface	7
	Contents	9
	Introduction	11
	1. Playful Philosophy: The Protreptic Scenes	19
	1.1 The First Protreptic	20
	1.1.1 The Initial List of Goods	21
	1.1.2 The Argument on Good Fortune	24
	1.1.3 Using the Goods	31
	1.1.4 Using the Goods Rightly	33
	1.1.5 Knowledge / Wisdom	36
	1.1.6 Appendix: Conventional Goods as Potential Evils	36
	1.1.7 The Relation between Virtue and Knowledge	38
	1.1.8 Providers of Wisdom	45
	1.1.9 Evaluation of the Argument: The Relation between Wisdom and Happiness	46
	1.1.10 Socrates the “Sophist”: Similarities between the Socratic and Eristic Method	54
	1.1.11 Conclusion: The Aim of the First Protreptic	57
	1.2 The Second Protreptic	58
	1.2.1 Redefining Knowledge: Production and Use	58
	1.2.2 Which Form of Knowledge?	61
	1.2.3 Crito’s Intervention	66
	1.2.4 The Art of Politics	67
	1.2.5 A Note on Socrates’ Method	74
	1.2.6 Conclusion	75
	2. Serious Sophistry: The Eristic Scenes	77
	2.1 The Individual Scenes	78
	2.1.1 The First Eristic Scene	78
	2.1.2 The Second Eristic Scene	82
	2.1.3 The Third Eristic Scene	98
	2.2 The Three Eristic Scenes as a Continuum	113
	2.2.1 Forms and Recollection in the Third Eristic Scene	113
	2.2.2 The Continuum	115
	2.2.3 Two Eristic Assumptions	120
	2.2.4 Back to the Continuum	129
	3. Conflating Philosophy and Sophistry: The Framing Scenes	135
	3.1 Introductory Framing Scene	135
	3.2 Interruption	144
	3.3 Final Framing Scene	146
	3.3.1 Socrates’ Speech of Praise	146
	3.3.2 Crito as a Student	147
	3.3.3 Crito and Socrates	148
	3.3.4 Conclusion: The Contribution of the Final Scene	162
	4. Reversals: Laughter, Play, and Seriousness	165
	4.1 The Primary Theme of Laughter	166
	4.2 The Secondary Theme of Play and Seriousness	173
	4.3 The Return of the Primary Theme of Laughter	183
	4.4 The Theme of Laughter in the Framing Scenes	192
	4.5 Summary and Interpretation	195
	Conclusion: Overall Interpretation	198
	Appendix: The Structure of the Euthydemus	201
	Works Cited	202
	Index of Proper Names	210
	Greek Works Cited	211
	General Index	212