Sophist - Plato
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Is it possible to truly define existence, or pinpoint the essence of any object or entity? These are the questions addressed in Plato's Sophist, a dialogue which takes on sophistry and Plato's own early theories in an attempt to reveal the true roots and limitations of human knowledge. Sophist is one of Plato's greatest dialogues, and Benjamin Jowett's English translation is one of the most highly regarded of its kind. As such it is essential reading for any serious scholar of Western philosophy.

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Is it possible to truly define existence, or pinpoint the essence of any object or entity? These are the questions addressed in Plato's Sophist, a dialogue which takes on sophistry and Plato's own early theories in an attempt to reveal the true roots and limitations of human knowledge. Sophist is one of Plato's greatest dialogues, and Benjamin Jowett's English translation is one of the most highly regarded of its kind. As such it is essential reading for any serious scholar of Western philosophy.
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Plato (c.428 to c.347 bc) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle. Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. Plato is also considered the founder of Western political philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism. He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids.His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself. Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Although their popularity has fluctuated over the years, the works of Plato have never been without readers since the time they were written.