Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Rooney <rooney-AT-tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
Subject: Re: Sophists




On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Dan Smith wrote:

> i can't speak for jean, but i think she's trying to
> point out that your recommending the strauss book
> perpetuates a dubious notion about the sophists
> of ancient greece.

Well, I got that much.  I was trying to get Jean to explain
just what's dubious about the Platonic evaluation of the
sophists.  Platonism renverse' does not entail a vindication
of con artists like Euthydemos and Gorgias.


Cordially,

M.