Plato's Treatment of Lying
FAIN: FT-12560-75
James H. Stam
Upsala College (East Orange, NJ 07019)
To analyze Plato's treatment of lying in The Republic and elsewhere, to contrast Plato's treatment of lying with the near total neglect of this phenomenon in modern philosophy after Machiavelli and up to Marx and Nietzsche; to analyze the vocabulary, the syntax -- the language-- of the lie.