Track 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1 - the sophists tackle Hempel; Clemons is nettled.

Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue

Euthydemus part 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1

Track 12 - 304b 6 - end - Hempel comments to Pratt.

Euthydemus part 12 - 304b 6 - end

Track 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5 - Hempel is enmeshed.

Euthydemus part 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5

Track 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9 - The same: Identity and predication.

Euthydemus part 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9

Track 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3 - Hempel, the sophists, Clemons: Being competent (epistemon; have ability=epistasthai).

Euthydemus part 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3

Track 8 - 290e1-293a9 - Hempel reports to Pratt, and then the encounter resumes.

Euthydemus part 8 - 290e 1-293a 9

Track 7 288b 3 - 290d 8 - Hempel resumes with Valerie: Which mastery (episteme) is best?

Euthydemus part 7 - 288b 3 - 290d 8

Track 6 - 285a2-288 b2 - More with Clemons: Falsehood is impossible.

Euthydemus part 6 - 285a 2-288b 2

Track 4 - 278e2-282d3 - Hempel questions Valerie: Intelligence (sophia) alone is really good.

Euthydemus part 4 - 278e2-282d3

Track 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1 The sophists set to work on Valerie: Is learning possible?

Euthydemus part 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1

Education

A performance of the Euthydemus in an English adaptation.  The Euthydemus did more than most of Plato’s works to give a bad name to the 'sophists', itinerant teachers whom he will have encountered in his youth when some of them clashed with his hero Socrates.  Here his dialogue about two sophists is transferred to a twentieth-century setting, Princeton University, where the adaptation was performed and tape-recorded in 1958.  Local faculty and students, speaking in their own names, take the parts of Plato's characters, giving a dramatic and sometimes comical lesson as to how philosophical inquiry ought to be conducted.  In order of appearance, the roles are:

Professor C.C. Pratt as Crito, a crony of Socrates; 
Professor Carl Hempel as Socrates;
John Lucas as Euthydemus, a visiting sophist;
Donald Clemons as Ctesippus, a young man;
Richard Sykes as Dionysodorus, another visiting sophist;
Carlotta Sherwood (alias ‘Valerie Stephens’) as Cleinias, Ctesippus’ beloved.

Page numbers against parts below, such as ‘275b 5 – 278e 1’, are for those who wish to match their listening with a written text or translation of Plato. Brief descriptions of what is going on in each part are visible at itunes.ox.ac.uk; to see them at podcasts.ox.ac.uk, click on the RSS button.  The ‘Introduction’ explains more.