Philotheámones and Sophists: Plato Republic V (475d1-480a13)

  • Edgar González Varela
Keywords: Knowledge, Philosopher, Opinion, Pluralism

Abstract

In Book V of the Republic Plato tries to distinguish the true philosophers from a group of characters who are only similar to philosophers but who in reality are not so. He uses different terms to refer to these pseudo-philosophers but the most frequent is philotheámones (φιλοθεάμονες). Scholars of Plato have had very diverse interpretations of the identity of these characters. In this paper I defend that the sophists are within the group in question, an interpretation whose main insight was defended by Vegetti (2000) but recently criticized by Meinwald (2017). I offer here textual, philosophical and contextual reasons in favour of this interpretation.

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Published
2022-11-15
How to Cite
González Varela, E. (2022). Philotheámones and Sophists: Plato Republic V (475d1-480a13). Cuadernos De filosofía, (76). https://doi.org/10.34096/cf.n76.12113
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