Plato: Euthydemus

In Euthydemus, Plato doesn’t just give us Socratic inquiry—he gives us its parody. Two sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, engage in relentless verbal games to show off their so called “wisdom,” turning argument into promotion and logic into absurdity. Socrates, watched with interest and irony, and tried to steer the dialogue back to a meaningful question: […] The post Plato: Euthydemus…