Euthydemus
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
1h 45m
20,851 words
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The brothers Euthydemus and Dionysodorus offer to teach virtue. Their method is verbal trickery — equivocations, false dichotomies, sophisms so dazzling that the young Cleinias and the audience are routinely stumped. Socrates plays straight man and, between the comic set pieces, lays out what genuine philosophical pedagogy would look like instead. Plato writing as both philosopher and satirist.
