Protagoras

Name: Protagoras
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ISBN: 9780199555659

ISBN-10: 0199555656

ISBN-13: 9780199555659

Edition: 2009

Authors: Plato, C. C. W. Taylor

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'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.'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.The dialogue combines subtlety of argument with intricacy of dramatic construction and brilliant…

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List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

C.C.W. Taylor is a Reader in Philosophy, Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.