SOME ASPECTS OF PLATO’S CRITICISM OF IMITATIVE ART THE ANALOGY BETWEEN THE SOPHIST AND THE PAINTER
Keywords:
Sophist, Images, MÃmesisAbstract
In the Sophist 234b-c, Plato attempts to characterize the sophist as a maker of "spoken images". This analogy between painting and sophistry, which the dialogue proposes in order to clarify the art practiced by sophists, has been criticized as involving an illegitimate assimilation of visual to spoken images, or of the objects of seeing to those of stating/believing. However, as I try to demonstrate in this paper, a different interpretation is possible.
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