Sophist by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Sophist, Plato presents a gripping philosophical inquiry staged as a rigorous conversation in Athens. After a brief opening with Socrates, the discussion is led by an enigmatic Stranger from Elea, who joins the young mathematician Theaetetus to tackle a deceptively simple challenge: what exactly is a sophist? The question quickly expands beyond social labels into a deep investigation of how definitions work, how we carve reality into kinds, and how persuasive speech can imitate knowledge. Using a careful step-by-step method of division, the Stranger tests candidate descriptions of the sophist as hunter, merchant, educator, debater, and finally as a maker of appearances. Along the way, the dialogue confronts a thorny problem that sits at the heart of deception: how can falsehood, contradiction, or saying what is not be possible at all? To answer, Plato explores the relationships among fundamental categories like being, difference, and likeness, showing how language, thought, and reality interlock. Sophist is both an intellectual detective story and a timeless warning about the power of rhetoric without truth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:46:55) Chapter 02

(01:45:24) Chapter 03

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