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I. Sophist
A. Theodorus, Theaetetus and Eliatic stranger meet Socrates p.261
1. meeting established at the end of Theaetatus
2. Stranger
a. accepts challenge to define, with theaetetus' help
1. Philosopher
2. Statesman
3. Sophist
B. Sophist
1 . angler
2. defined through comparison and division in two parts
a. similarly used to define statesman
C. Middle of text p. 262
1. important digression
2. dichotomy is given up
3. sophist found to be
a. juggler and deceiver
4. question
a. does deception and falsehood assume Not-Being
1. opposed to Parmenides and Eleatics
D. Plato that Not-Being cannot exist
1. shows relative existance
a. each particular instance
1. denotes difference or condition of being other than that in connection with which it is said to exist
2. not negation
a. rather positive notion of difference
1. most important doctrine of dialogue
E. nature of Being
1. anything possessing power has existence
a. produce change or
b. be affected by cause
F. power
1. active or passive
a. Being
G. Problem of predication possibility of assertion solved
1. distinction between verbs and nouns
a. sentences defined by those two.
1. if combination corresponds to reality, then it's true
H. Other subjects include p. 263
1. theory of knowledge
2. relation between reality an correspondance
3. relation between one and the many
I. five forms or categories are introduced
1. Being
2. motion
3. rest
4. same
5. other
I. Laches (p.3)
A. Socratic Method
1. Excellent introduction with respect to moral questions
B. Participants
1. two eminent generals
a. Nicias
b. Laches
2. old men
a. Lysimachus
b. Melesias
C. Setting
1. two old men question generals
D. question
1. best education for sons
2. should boys lern to use armor
E. source of question
1. exibition of armor
F. Socrates
1. about 50
2. invited to discussion
3. turns discussion to nature of courage
a. discussion centers on
1. Socrates, Nicias, Laches
b. discussion turns again to moral courage
1. Nicias
a. based on Socrates
1. courage is knowledge of what should be feared
a. excludes children and animals
2. Socrates (p. 4)
a. knowledge of good and evil
1. past, present, future
3. distance from knowing nature of courage so great
a. decide to go to school with the boys
G. year of conversation
1. about 420 B.C.
H. main purpose
1. show how Socrates dealth with men older than himself
I. Niceas
1. interested in military application of armor
J. Laches
1. less intelligent
2. dismisses armor as fashion
3. dialogue shows conversion to a more philosophic attitude
K. philosophic conclusion questionable
1. seams focused on description of Socratic method
a. general notion of quality (p. 5)
1. distinct from concrete instances
b. insistance on
1. universality of knowledge
a. must embrace all the virtues
b. no limit in time
c. way is paved
1. doctrine
a. permanence and invariability of the true objects of knowledge
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