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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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/12113 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cufilo&d=12113_oai |
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| Sumario: | 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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