Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. I. Defining Sophistry
5. Protagoras and the Definition of ‘Sophist’ in the Sophist 3
6. Why is it so Difficult to Catch a Sophist? Pl. Sph. 218d3 and 261a5 15
7. Plato’s Enquiry concerning the Sophist as a Way towards ‘Defining’ Philosophy 29
8. The Sixth Definition (Sophist 226a–231c): Transposition of Religious Language 41
9. Remarks on the First Five Definitions of the Sophist (Soph. 221c–235a) 57
10. Socrates and ‘Noble’ Sophistry (Sophist 226b–231c) 71
11. The Method of Division in the Sophist: Plato’s Second Deuteros Plous 87
12. II. Parricide: Threat or Reality?
13. Plato’s Ionian Muses: Sophist 242 d–e 103
14. Does Plato refute Parmenides? 117
15. Back to the Point: Plato and Parmenides – Genuine Parricide? 157
16. Plato’s Eleaticism in the Sophist: The Doctrine of Non-Being 175
17. The relativization of “separation” (khorismos) in the Sophist 187
18. III. Mimesis, Image and Logos
19. Theaetetus sits – Theaetetus flies. Ontology, predication and truth in Plato’s Sophist (263a–d) 205
20. Difference and Negation: Plato’s Sophist in Proclus 225
21. Difference in Kind: Observations on the Distinction of the Megista Gene 247
22. Mimesis in the Sophist 269
23. Bibliography 279
24. Index Locorum 291
25. Subject Index 301