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Euthydemus
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett
Socrates tells Crito about his encounter with two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who claim to refute anything anyone says.
The Euthydemus sets Socrates' way of questioning beside the verbal tricks of two sophists who teach argument for its own sake. The brothers' fallacies alternate with Socrates' conversation with the young Cleinias about wisdom and the good.
This edition is the English translation by Benjamin Jowett.
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PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator of the Dialogue. Crito, Cleinias, Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Ctesippus.
CRITO: Who was the person, Socrates, with whom you were talking yesterday at the Lyceum? There was such a crowd around you that I could not get within hearing, but I caught a sight of him over their heads, and I made out, as I thought, that he was a stranger with whom you were talking: who was he?
SOCRATES: There were two, Crito; which of them do you mean?
CRITO: The one whom I mean was seated second from you on the right-hand side. In the middle was Cleinias the young son of Axiochus, who has wonderfully grown; he is only about the age of my own Critobulus, but he is much forwarder and very good-looking: the other is thin and looks younger than he is.
SOCRATES: He whom you mean, Crito, is Euthydemus; and on my left hand there was his brother Dionysodorus, who also took part in the conversation.
CRITO: Neither of them are known to me, Socrates; they are a new importation of Sophists, as I should imagine. Of what country are they, and what is their line of wisdom?
Contents
- 01Introduction.
- 02Euthydemus
About this edition
- Author
- Plato
- Translator
- Benjamin Jowett
- Era
- Ancient (to c. 500)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 65 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers