Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:29:55 -0400
From: dls216-AT-psu.edu (Dan Smith)
Subject: Re: Sophists


leaving aside the questions as to whether or not
euthymedos or gorgias were con artists, i don't think
it was implied that the recent rethinking of the sophists
role/s in ancient greece (contra plato's narratives)
vindicated either one of them.

dan s.

>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.
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>Cordially,
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>M.
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           "One must have chaos in oneself to give
            birth to dancing star." - Nietzsche