Protagoras (Oxford World's Classics)
by:
Plato (author)
C.C.W. Taylor (author)
One of the many dialogues of Plato enacted through the person of Socrates.
One of the many dialogues of Plato enacted through the person of Socrates.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199555659 (0199555656)
Publish date: September 14th 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Plato is always a good writer. Socrates is always worth understanding. This one short dialog would be the philosophical work I would suggest everyone to start with if they're interested in philosophy (wisdom, what we can 'know' about reality). The conflict between the known and the knowing (the b...
This I feel is one of Plato's later dialogues, though it is still very Socratic in form. It is believed that the main part of the dialogue (it is not really a dialogue in that it seems to be more like a retelling of an earlier event, an event which most likely occurred before Plato was born, than a ...