tailieunhanh - Euthydemus Plato

The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic. But if the order of history were followed, they should be placed not at the end but at the beginning of them; for they belong to the age in which the human mind was first. | feedboo is Euthydemus Plato Translator Benjamin Jowett Published -400 Categorie s Non-Fiction Philosophy Source http 1 About Plato Plato Greek Plátõn wide broad-shouldered 428 427 BC - 348 347 BC was an ancient Greek philosopher the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks -Socrates Plato originally named Aristocles and Aristotle- who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher s unjust death. Plato s brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues letters and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy although the pedagogical function of his dialogues if any is not known with certainty. They have historically been used to teach philosophy logic rhetoric mathematics and other subjects about which he wrote. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Plato The Complete Plato -347 The Republic -380 Apology -400 Symposium -400 Charmides -400 Protagoras -400 Statesman -400 Ion -400 Meno -400 Crito -400 Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Introduction The Euthydemus though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic. But if the order of history were followed they .