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Discussing "Sophist" By Plato
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Parmenides, Zeno, And The Eleatic School
4:40
Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, And A Possible Origin Of The Socratic Method
5:43
The Familiar As A Guide For The Unfamiliar
6:57
The Method Of Division
11:09
A Definition Of Discord
12:03
Sickness And Ugliness In The Soul
16:18
A Large Difficult Kind Of Ignorance
19:16
Sophistry As The Imitation Of Truth; Likeness And Appearance
21:10
The Current Of Agreement
25:35
That Which Is Not
27:15
The Appearance Of Organisms
28:46
A Definition Of The Sophist
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Discussing "Sophist" By Plato
Jan 17, 2025
Season 3
Episode 76
Alex
In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Sophist," which is one of the dialogues of Plato, who lived in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
The cover art for this episode is Plato as depicted in a portion of the oil painting The Death of Socrates, which French painter Jacques-Louis David completed in 1787.
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