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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Protagoras"”.
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Socratic Ethics in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic
… Socratic ethics in three Platonic dialogues: the Protagoras, the Gorgias, and the Republic. The purpose is twofold: 1) to question the standard view that what is the defining characteristic of Socratic ethics in the Protagoras and the Gorgias is its intellectualism and that the Republic represents …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
… levelled against him in the Apology---and Protagoras as a philosopher. At the same time, however, I argue that, by adopting the dramatic persona of a sophist, Socrates rejects sophistic conceptualizations of knowledge and crafts his own apologia a few days prior to his indictment. In the …
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Courage and the soul in Plato
… ethical theory. In Chapter 2 I look at the Protagoras where the main issues about courage that Plato will continue to discuss throughout his life are introduced. The questions of the extent to which the virtues can be taught and the unity of the virtues are introduced early on. What follows …
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Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
… the eight circles. The eponymous sophists of the Protagoras and Euthydemus are chorus leaders, who lead their enchanted and entertained pupils in choruses of dubious sincerity, which seemingly parody traditional Archaic choral paideia and the Laws’ own education programme (Prot. 314e-315b, 326a-b; …
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
… moderate versions of Heraclitean Flux (HF) and Protagoras’ Measure Doctrine (MD). Reading B finds Plato rejecting both theories. This thesis provides a brief history of Platonic interpretation, an exposition of the first definition of knowledge, and evidence for Reading B. The evidence appeals …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… VIII.</p><p> I offer close readings of the Protagoras, the Alcibiades I, the Symposium, the Timaeus-Critias, the Charmides and the Republic in order to show Plato's creation and use of the diachronic dimension surrounding paradigmatic characters in order to show the effects of time on …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… dialogues,’ such as the <em>Gorgias</em>, <em>Protagoras</em>, <em>Euthydemus</em>, <em>Hippias Major </em>and <em>Hippias Minor</em>, where they perform within a competitive context alongside Socrates, we see that the behavior of both is strikingly similar. Both Socrates and the sophists use …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… in particular, Empedocles, Lucretius; Socrates, Protagoras; Plato, Aristotle; and Pliny, Augustine). Part II follows these traditions into the Renaissance where they intersect in the ‘books of wonder’, among which Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges (1573) is viewed to have had a lasting influence on …
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The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue
This dissertation is a study of the Greek sophists as teachers of <i>aretê</i> (virtue or human excellence) and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on …