The Protagoras Of Plato

Author : Olof Pettersson,Vigdis Songe-Møller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : J. Clerk Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : 47,6 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 : 45,9 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 : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Plato
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Plato
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616403683

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Three Dialogues by Plato Pdf

Three Dialogues is a collection of three Socratic dialogues by the philosopher Plato: Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias. Protagoras is an argument between the elderly and celebrated sophist Protagoras and Socrates about the nature of sophists and virtue. Philebus, written between 360 and 347 BC and one of the last Socratic dialogues, features Socrates (rare for a late dialogue), Philebus, and Protarchus. It centers on the value of pleasure versus knowledge, and focuses in the end on the inherent value of philosophy and reason over drama and poetry: a wholly philosophical idea. Finally, Gorgias is an argument between a philosopher and rhetorician, emphasizing the art of persuasion as necessary for gaining legal and political advantages. All three dialogues are also available in the Cosimo omnibus editions of The Works of Plato. One of the greatest Western philosophers who ever lived, PLATO (c. 428-347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates' teachings, often using him as a character in scripts and plays (Socratic dialogues), which he used to demonstrate philosophical ideas. Plato's dialogues were and still are used to teach a wide range of subjects, including politics, mathematics, rhetoric, logic, and, naturally, philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C022206534

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The Protagoras of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199262225

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Epistemology After Protagoras by Mi-Kyoung Lee Pdf

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Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000706871

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The Protagoras of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521840446

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Plato: Protagoras by Plato Pdf

This book provides an English commentary on the Greek text of this important work, giving full assistance with literary, linguistic and philosophical questions. The last such edition of the Protagoras was first published over a century ago.

Author : Ernest Gottlieb Sihler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002031219

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Plato by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler Pdf