Focus Publishing
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Socrates and the Sophists; Plato's Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias major and Cratylus.
Plato. Ed. and trans. by Joe Sachs. (Focus philosophical library)
Focus Publishing, ©2011 224 p. $16.95 B358
978-1-58510-362-1
Sachs (St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland) translates four of Plato's dialogues that he finds provide a clearer picture of sophists in Plato's dialogues and what Socrates makes of them than the Sophist itself. In the Protagoras, the Euthydemus, and the Hippias Major, he says, sophists of various kinds are on display, and are made to back up what they say in discussions with Socrates. In the Cratylus, Socrates compares views of two prominent sophists on whether names are natural or conventional, and so may shed indirect light on his opinion. There is no index. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
