Ambuel, David

Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist

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ISBN 13:
9781930972049
author:
Ambuel, David
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Parmenides Publishing
language:
English
Publication Year:
2007
Pages:
296
Dimensions:
23.6 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
Genre:
Popular Philosophy
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£29.54

Description

Plato's Sophist presents a challenging puzzle in metaphysics and philosophy. In this new translation with comprehensive commentary, David Ambuel offers an unconventional interpretation that reverses dominant trends in scholarship. The dialogue is not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, revealing both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Plato's criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry. This late dialogue is shown to be living philosophy, with Ambuel arguing that it defends, rather than departs from, Plato's metaphysics. A complete interpretation of the Sophist requires understanding its elements in context, both within the dialogue itself and in relation to other works in the Platonic corpus. Ambuel's work provides a comprehensive framework for grasping this complex and nuanced dialogue.

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