Protagoras
by:
Plato (author)
Stanley Lombardo (author)
Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of sophistic teaching into an idiom remarkable for its liveliness and subtlety. Michael Frede has provided a substantial introduction that illuminates the dialogue's perennial interest, its Athenian...
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Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of sophistic teaching into an idiom remarkable for its liveliness and subtlety. Michael Frede has provided a substantial introduction that illuminates the dialogue's perennial interest, its Athenian political background, and the particular difficulties and ironic nuances of its argument.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780872200944 (0872200949)
Publish date: March 1st 1992
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Pages no: 59
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 ...
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