Philotheámones and Sophists: Plato Republic V (475d1-480a13)

In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of characters who are only similar to philosophers but who in reality are not so. He uses different terms to refer to these pseudo-philosophers but the most frequent is philotheámones (φιλοθεάμονες). Scholars of...

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spelling I28-R145-12113_oai2025-11-17 González Varela, Edgar 2022-11-15 In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of characters who are only similar to philosophers but who in reality are not so. He uses different terms to refer to these pseudo-philosophers but the most frequent is philotheámones (φιλοθεάμονες). Scholars of Plato have had very diverse interpretations of the identity of these characters. In this paper I defend that the sophists are within the group in question, an interpretation whose main insight was defended by Vegetti (2000) but recently criticized by Meinwald (2017). I offer here textual, philosophical and contextual reasons in favour of this interpretation. En el libro V de la República Platón intenta distinguir a los verdaderos filósofos de un grupo de personajes que son solo parecidos a los filósofos, pero que en realidad no lo son. Platón utiliza diferentes términos para referirse a estos pseudo-filósofos pero el más recurrente es el de philotheámones (φιλοθεάμονες). Los estudiosos de Platón han tenido muy diversas interpretaciones sobre la identidad de estos personajes. En este trabajo defiendo que dentro del grupo en cuestión están los sofistas, una interpretación cuya intuición principal fue defendida por Vegetti (2000) pero criticada recientemente por Meinwald (2017). Aquí ofrezco tanto razones textuales como filosóficas y contextuales a favor de esta interpretación. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/12113 10.34096/cf.n76.12113 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/12113/11047 Derechos de autor 2022 Cuadernos de filosofía Cuadernos de filosofía; Núm. 76 (2021): Enero-Junio 2362-485X 0590-1901 Knowledge, Philosopher, Opinion, Pluralism conocimiento, filósofo, opinión, pluralismo Philotheámones and Sophists: Plato Republic V (475d1-480a13) Philotheámones y sofistas: Platón República V (475d1-480a13) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cufilo&d=12113_oai
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description In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of characters who are only similar to philosophers but who in reality are not so. He uses different terms to refer to these pseudo-philosophers but the most frequent is philotheámones (φιλοθεάμονες). Scholars of Plato have had very diverse interpretations of the identity of these characters. In this paper I defend that the sophists are within the group in question, an interpretation whose main insight was defended by Vegetti (2000) but recently criticized by Meinwald (2017). I offer here textual, philosophical and contextual reasons in favour of this interpretation.
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