PHIL 705 Plato's Sophist
This course offers a detailed examination and interpretation of Plato's Sophist. The main themes to be addressed will include: the nature of sophistry, the possibility of falsehood, the ontological status of images, the relation between philosophy and sophistry. Exploration of these themes will involve consideration of some of the most challenging areas of Plato's late metaphysics and epistemology, namely the dialectical method of division, the inter-participation of forms, the form of Non-Being and Plato's view regarding earlier attempts to address the question concerning the meaning of Being.