Cannibalism & Thinking in Plato's Euthydemus

• In Event: Justice, Education, and Human Flourishing in Plato and Aristotle

Abstract

Is thinking perceived as dangerous to the city, because of its relationship to one of the fundamental taboos of political life... eating people? This paper will examine the consumption of subject and object in thought by way of a sophistic argument in Plato's Euthydemus that collapses subject and predicate, and activity and product.

Author

• Gwenda-lin Kaur Grewal, Vassar College