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Protagoras (World's Classics) - Softcover

Plato

 
9780192823304: Protagoras (World's Classics)

Synopsis

In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public and private life. In this dialogue Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the critical arguments of Socrates. From criticism of the educational aims and methods of the sophists the dialogue broadens out to consider the nature of the good life, and the role of pleasure and intellect in the context of that life.

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Review

`lucid, penetrating and philosophically interesting' M.C. Stokes, University of Durham

`excellent' W. Charlton, University of Edinburgh

About the Author

Plato (c. 427-c. 347 B.C.) was an immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied. C. C. W. Taylor is at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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