Euthydemus: Logic, Language, and the Absurd - Plato's Satirical Dialogue on Sophistry and Education

What if the cleverest arguments were the most meaningless?

In Euthydemus, Plato unleashes his sharpest satire on the world of sophistry. When Socrates meets two cunning rhetoricians, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, a lesson on virtue quickly devolves into a whirlwind of verbal traps, circular logic, and baffling contradictions. Their aim? To appear wise-even if they say nothing at all.

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