Federica Piangerelli

The Manifold Beast Animality Between Ontology and Method in Plato’s Sophist

This paper offers a reading of Plato’s Sophist centred on the image of the sophist as a “manifold beast” (226a6), described as “elusive to hunt down” (218d3). Far from being a mere metaphor, this characterisation plays a pivotal role in the dialogue’s dialectical development from both a methodological and an ontologica...