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From the Introduction: “Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the Euthydemus has

in recent years attracted renewed attention. The dialogue, in Euthydemus which Socrates converses with two sophists whose techniques of verbal manipulation utterly disengage language from any grounding in stable meaning or reality, is in many ways a dialogue for our times. Contemporary questions of language and power permeate the speech and action of the dialogue. The two sophists—Euthydemus and his brother Dionysodorus— explicitly question whether speech has any connection to truth and specifically whether anything can be said about justice and nobility that cannot also be said about their opposites.” — Denise Schaeffer McBrayer, Nichols, Mary P. Nichols is the Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. She studies the history of political thought, especially Greek political theory; politics and literature; and politics and film. Her publications range from studies of Plato and Aristotle to film directors such as Woody Allen, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Gregory A. McBrayer is Senior Editor at PEGS (Political Economy of the Good Society) and visiting professor at Gettysburg College. and Schaeffer plato He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His dissertation examined Aristotle’s treatment of the Socratic paradox that no one does wrong voluntarily. Euthydemus

Denise Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has published numerous articles in the history of political thought, from Plato and Aristotle to Rousseau and Nietzsche. She is currently working on a book on freedom and judgment in Rousseau’s Emile. Translated by Gregory A. McBrayer and Mary P. Nichols with an Interpretive Essay by Focus Publishing R. Pullins Company ISBN 978-1-58510-305-8 Mary P. Nichols and Denise Schaeffer PO Box 369 and an Introduction by Denise Schaeffer Newburyport, MA 01950 www.pullins.com 9 781585 103058 Focus Philosophy | History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical