Abandoned Footnotes

It is not often noted (an exception is Hemmenway 1994 , p. 265, note 12 [ JSTOR ]) that the Stranger’s top-most category in his divisions, t...

From Diogenes Laertius VI.40 : Plato defined man as a featherless biped [ Statesman 266e ], and was much applauded [for that]. [Diogenes h...

Among some commentators (e.g. Zuckert 2000 , pp. 71-72) it has sometimes been argued that the difference between the Socratic and the Eleati...

One of the most interesting moments in the prologue to the Sophist occurs after Socrates asks the Eleatic Stranger whether sophist, statesm...

The question of images is central to the interpretation of the Sophist , as I indicated earlier . Indeed much of the dialogue is concerned w...

I mentioned earlier that we can see a tension between Socrates and Theodorus in the dialogues of the trilogy. Socrates and Theodorus, despi...

I mentioned earlier that the Sophist and the Statesman can be understood as a sort of philosophical trial of Socrates. But what is the ...

I earlier posted about the Stranger's αἰδώς (shame or awe) on responding to Socrates' request that he use a vaguely "Socratic...

The Sophist and the Statesman seem to present themselves as a kind of philosophical trial of Socrates (see Cropsey 1995 ; Friedländer 196...

The typical view of the dramatic character of the "late" dialogues of Plato (like the Sophist ) is that they don't have any. T...

It is an interesting factoid that Plato appears to have written two "incomplete" trilogies: the Timaeus , Critias , and "Herm...

Are the Theaetetus and the Eleatic dialogues of Plato (the Sophist and the Statesman ) dramatically connected? The usual answer is yes - t...