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The Sophist
This one was really cool. ... They start with a specific goal in mind, which is to identify, classify, and describe the Sophist. The Stranger begins by inversely classifying the art of the Angler, which he later uses to help determine the art of the Sophist. ... Using similar reasoning, he then comes up with six possible ways to classify the Sophist, all of which are logical. He then decides that it is hard to believe that the Sophist can fall into so many categories and attempts to pinpoint an exact location in this hierarchical structure where the Sophist truly exists. However, the Stranger realizes that he must first disprove Parmenides’ proposition that not-being does not exist in order to show that the Sophist’s aim is primarily to knowingly deceive his audience. ...
One of the ways in which the Stranger and Theatetus initially characterize the aim of the Sophist is through closely linking him with the angler because the Sophist is also a kind of hunter of human followers or students who are willing to pay him money for instruction.
Str: Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting from the art of acquiring, take the same road? ... ]
Str: Then now, Theaetetus, his art [Sophistry] may be traced as a branch of the appropriative, acquisitive family-which hunts animals, -living-land-tame animals; which hunts man, -privately- for hire, -taking money in exchange- having the semblance of education; and this is termed Sophistry, and is a hunt after young men of wealth and rank- such is the conclusion
However, this is only one of many initial conclusions that the Stranger makes about the Sophist.
Approximate Word count = 1184
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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