Plato's Sophist in Antiquity

Roberto Granieri is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Roma Tre University. He works primarily on metaphysical issues in Plato, ancient Platonism, and Aristotle. On these subjects he has published articles in leading journals, and the book Conoscere l'essere. Platone, Aristotele e la costruzione della filosofia prima (Bologna, 2024). Francesco Fronterotta is Full Professor of History of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. He works mainly on pre-Socratic thought, Plato, and the history of ancient and modern Platonic tradition. He has translated and annotated numerous dialogues by Plato, Heraclitus' fragments, and contributed to a new French translation of Plotinus' Enneads.

• Introduction Roberto Granieri and Francesco Fronterotta; 1. Categories, being and not-being: the sophist in the early academy Roberto Granieri; 2. Traces of the sophist in Xenocrates' account of the generation of the soul? Some cautious considerations Giulia De Cesaris; 3. Butchering kinds: Aristotle on Plato's dichotomous, negative, and cross-cutting divisions Justin Vlasits; 4. Aristotle on 'the other principle', the opposites, and Plato's sophist Laura Castelli; 5. The reception of the sophist in Aristotle's metaphysics: being as truth and not-being as falsehood; and knowledge-itself and motion-itself Stephen Menn; 6. Stoic reactions to Plato's sophist Francesco Ademollo; 7. The role of the sophist in Plutarch's onto-theology Arianna Piazzalunga; 8. The role of Plato's sophist in Plutarch's cosmology: the five greatest kinds and the ontological structure of the world-soul Francesco Caruso; 9. Genera of being and the structure of intellect Plotinus' exegesis of the sophist in ennead VI 2 [43] Christian Tornau; 10. Inverted Sumplokē. How Does the Dialectician Grasp the Unity of Intellect (Plotinus, Enn. VI.7 (38); VI.2 (43); III.7 (45))? Alexandra Michalewski; 11. Plotinus and porphyry on Plato's sophist Riccardo Chiaradonna; 12. Porphyry and Iamblichus as Readers of the Sophist: Some Marginal Annotations Daniela P. Taormina; 13. Late ancient Platonism and modern (Fregean) predication theory. Some remarks on Proclus' reception of Plato's sophist Benedikt Strobel; 14. The two meanings of not-being as nothingness: Damascius' reading of Plato's sophist Anna Motta.

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