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Taking the Sophists Seriously: Engaging David Corey’s The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues

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  1. Consider Socrates’ description of the effect that Protagoras’ great speech has on him. The Euthydemus has numerous examples as well.

  2. It is not only that the city and the citizens fail to see the difference but also the real issue is that they fail to engage the question about what is the difference between philosophy and sophistry. Crito is such a perfect example of this in the Euthydemus. Crito doesn’t even see Socrates as a possible teacher for his son. He does not even seem to recognize that there is such a thing as philosophy.

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  • Plato. 1997. The Republic. Trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve. In Collected Dialogues, ed. John Cooper, 972–1223. Indianapolis: Hackett.

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Schultz, AM. Taking the Sophists Seriously: Engaging David Corey’s The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues . Stud Philos Educ 36, 385–387 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-016-9554-z

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