Plato S Protagoras

Author : Olof Pettersson,Vigdis Songe-Møller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319455853

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Plato’s Protagoras by Olof Pettersson,Vigdis Songe-Møller Pdf

This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the strategies that this involved. They explore Plato’s dialogue, looking at questions of how philosophy and sophistry relate, both on a methodological and on a thematic level. While many of the contributing authors argue for a sharp distinction between sophistry and philosophy, this is contested by others. Readers may consider the distinctions between philosophy and traditional forms of poetry and sophistry through these papers. Questions for readers' attention include: To what extent is Socrates’ preferred mode of discourse, and his short questions and answers, superior to Protagoras’ method of sophistic teaching? And why does Plato make Socrates and Protagoras reverse positions as it comes to virtue and its teachability? This book will appeal to graduates and researchers with an interest in the origins of philosophy, classical philosophy and historical philosophy.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226818153

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Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras" by Leo Strauss Pdf

"A Seminar on Plato's Protagoras offers the transcript of Leo Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras edited and introduced by the renowned scholar Robert Bartlett. In this dialogue, Socrates engaged with the sophist Protagoras. In the lectures, Strauss discusses Protagoras and the sophists in relation to the dialogue Gorgias in which Socrates engages with the meaning of rhetoric, all in light of Socrates' pursuit of the question "How ought one to live?" While Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, including his last book, he published little on the dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech"--

Author : J. Clerk Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107046658

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Plato's Anti-hedonism and the Protagoras by J. Clerk Shaw Pdf

"In this book, Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism"--

Author : Dr Ugo Zilioli
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409485452

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Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism by Dr Ugo Zilioli Pdf

Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically sophisticated examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism. Zilioli relates Protagoras' relativism with modern forms of relativism, in particular the 'robust relativism' of Joseph Margolis, gives an integrated account both of the perceptual relativism examined in Plato's Theaetetus and the ethical or social relativism presented in the first part of Plato's Protagoras and offers an integrated and positive analysis of Protagoras' thought, rather than focusing on ancient criticisms and responses to his thought. This is a deeply scholarly work which brings much argument to bear to the claim that Protagoras was and remains Plato's subtlest philosophical enemy.

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226470979

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How Philosophy Became Socratic by Laurence Lampert Pdf

Plato’s dialogues show Socrates at different ages, beginning when he was about nineteen and already deeply immersed in philosophy and ending with his execution five decades later. By presenting his model philosopher across a fifty-year span of his life, Plato leads his readers to wonder: does that time period correspond to the development of Socrates’ thought? In this magisterial investigation of the evolution of Socrates’ philosophy, Laurence Lampert answers in the affirmative. The chronological route that Plato maps for us, Lampert argues, reveals the enduring record of philosophy as it gradually took the form that came to dominate the life of the mind in the West. The reader accompanies Socrates as he breaks with the century-old tradition of philosophy, turns to his own path, gradually enters into a deeper understanding of nature and human nature, and discovers the successful way to transmit his wisdom to the wider world. Focusing on the final and most prominent step in that process and offering detailed textual analysis of Plato’s Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic, How Philosophy Became Socratic charts Socrates’ gradual discovery of a proper politics to shelter and advance philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781585105052

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Socrates and the Sophists by Plato Pdf

This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783986470609

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Protagoras by Plato Pdf

Protagoras Plato - The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely, from political theory to literary criticism, from education to the nature of cowardice; but in view throughout this literary and philosophical masterpiece are the questions of what part knowledge plays in a successful life, and how we may acquire the knowledge that makes for success. This edition contains the first commentary in English on the Greek text for almost a hundred years.

Author : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199262225

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Epistemology After Protagoras by Mi-Kyoung Lee Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442204935

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Plato's Protagoras by Anonim Pdf

Arieti and Barrus' new edition of Plato's Protagoras provides a rigorously clear and accurate translation that communicates Plato's puns, metaphors, figures of speech, and other verbal techniques naturally, allowing scholars to feel the full scope of Plato's rhetoric. This new edition confronts and discusses the critical linguistic choices made in rendering difficult or obscure terms into an easily readable and understandable rendition. The commentary, introduction, glossary, and appendices elucidate the dialogue's many issues, especially those concerning rhetoric, education, and literary interpretation.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801488656

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Protagoras by Plato Pdf

This volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial interpretive essays. Robert C. Bartlett's translations are as literal as is compatible with sound English style and take into account important textual variations. Because the interpretive essays both sketch the general outlines of the dialogues and take up specific theoretical or philosophic difficulties, they will be of interest not only to those reading the dialogues for the first time but also to those already familiar with them.The Protagoras and the Meno are linked by the attention each pays to the idea of virtue: the latter dialogue focuses on the fundamental Socratic question, "What is virtue?"; the former on the specific virtue of courage, especially in its relation to wisdom. An appendix contains a short extract from Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus that vividly portrays the figure of Meno.

Author : Robert C. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226394282

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Sophistry and Political Philosophy by Robert C. Bartlett Pdf

It was Nietzsche who first identified the similarities between the radical sophistry of antiquity and the contemporary relativism that has come to characterize modern thought. The anti-foundationalism of contemporary thought can be said to have been born with the Sophists, and, of all the Sophists who have come down to us, Protagoras is the most famous and challenging of them. Robert Bartlett s masterful book is the first to examine Plato s Protagoras and Theaetetus together to uncover what lies at the heart of Protagoras teaching, both its moral and political components and its theoretical and epistemological groundings. His superb exegesis of these two dialogues allows one to see more clearly the power of radical relativism: its strengths and its deficiencies. Bartlett notes that political philosophy has been supplanted in the modern era either by the study of the history of political philosophy or by relativism. Although "Understanding Political Philosophy and Sophistry" can certainly be taken as an example of the former, it is much more than that. It seeks to uncover what Socrates, in responding to that teaching, begins to reveal of his own understanding and characteristic activity. It helps us begin to understand, in other words, the phenomenon of philosophy, not just as a system of thought, but as Socrates lived it."

Author : Plato
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0192804014

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Protagoras by Plato Pdf

The dialog in Greek with introduction, notes and appendices in English

Author : Burkhard Reis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139456999

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The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics by Burkhard Reis Pdf

There is now a renewed concern for moral psychology among moral philosophers. Moreover, contemporary philosophers interested in virtue, moral responsibility and moral progress regularly refer to Plato and Aristotle, the two founding fathers of ancient ethics. The book contains eleven chapters by distinguished scholars which showcase current research in Greek ethics. Four deal with Plato, focusing on the Protagoras, Euthydemus, Symposium and Republic, and discussing matters of literary presentation alongside the philosophical content. The four chapters on Aristotle address problems such as the doctrine of the mean, the status of rules, equity and the tension between altruism and egoism in Aristotelian eudaimonism. A contrast to classical Greek ethics is presented by two chapters reconstructing Epicurus' views on the emotions and moral responsibility as well as on moral development. The final chapter on personal identity in Empedocles shows that the concern for moral progress is already palpable in Presocratic philosophy.

Author : B. A. F. Hubbard,Ellen S. Karnofsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PSU:000007982644

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Plato's Protagoras by B. A. F. Hubbard,Ellen S. Karnofsky Pdf

Author : Johannes M. van Ophuijsen,Marlein van Raalte,Peter Stork
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004251243

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Protagoras of Abdera by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen,Marlein van Raalte,Peter Stork Pdf

Protagoras of Abdera, Socrates’ older contemporary, is regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called sophistic movement. Instead of simply accepting the biased reports given by Plato and Aristotle about this sophist, the contributors to this volume review the complicated doxographical situation and make a case for Protagoras as a philosopher in his own right. Two major themes of this volume are Protagoras’ relativism and his case for a moral and political ideal, both of which are contrasted with the metaphysical idealism of his future opponents in the Academy and the mundane conventionalism typically associated with the sophists. It turns out that rather than a parasitic force of intellectual subversion, Protagoras may have been a prolific and original thinker aiming at a coherent and comprehensive view of man’s place in the world.