From the Introduction: "Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the
Euthydemus has in recent years attracted renewed attention. The
dialogue, in 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." Focus
Philosophical Library translations are close to and are
non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a
glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the
terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato's immediate
audience. Features Notes, glossary, and an interpretive essay.