Are the sophists merely another group of villains in PlatoÂ’s dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, 'The Sophists in PlatoÂ’s Dialogues' argues that, contrary to t…
Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato's dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasy-machus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues argues that, contrary to the …
Politicians, pundits, and scholars have cited the principles of "just war" to defend military actions from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya. Others have cited just war principles to condemn those very interventions. How can this same tradition lead to such sharply opposing conclusio…