The Euthodemus Is a Dialogue on the Nature of Knowledge

The brothers argue that it's impossible for two people to contradict one another. This is a dialogue in which fundamental questions of metaphysics and epistem ogy underlie apparent silliness. The point of philosophical argument is not winning at all costs, like these verbally pugilistic sophists do. But don't the carmedes and the euthodemus shed light on the limitations of socrates? In both dialogues, socrates has a chance to influence a young man and make him virtuous. We know he fails with carmedes, and things don't go very well with clinias either. Next week, it's a battle of the heavy weights, socrates versus cal