Philosophy 3003F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sophist
22 Jan 2019
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Often considered spurious (where the authorship is doubted) Written by plato, or someone very close to him. Written when plato was in sicily: after considering joining politics, he became very alienated from it and distanced himself because he did not believe in the same values (especially with regards to socrates) Plato is arguing here that we need to bring politics and philosophy together: we need a just political order (reference to the republic) Known for comments like man is the measure of all things : plato would disagree; he would say the forms are the measure of all things. Questioning the validity of what the sophists were doing. Known as hippocrates (not the same as the early medical person: wants to get into politics, looking for protagoras: the great sophists. Begins with hippocrates and socrates: hippo is looking for protagoras. Continues with socrates and protagoras: questioning whether protagoras is a good teacher/should teach.
