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Protagoras
Plato
Book Overview:
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a surprising ending. Socrates narrates this dialogue.
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a surprising ending. Socrates narrates this dialogue.
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PROTAGORAS
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator of the Dialogue to his Companion. Hippocrates, Alcibiades and Critias. Protagoras, Hippias and Prodicus (Sophists). Callias, a wealthy Athenian.
SCENE: The House of Callias.
COMPANION: Where do you come from, Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have been in c. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Celebrity Death Match Special: Plato versus Isaac Asimov
[A street in Athens. Late evening. SOCRATES and R. DANEEL OLIVAW]
OLIVAW: Greetings.
SOCRATES: Are you a demon? A messenger of the Gods? A--
OLIVAW: I am a robot from the future. There are some things I need to understand better. People say you ma
“It makes no difference to me, provided you give the answers, whether it is your own opinion or not. I am primarily interested in testing the argument, although it may happen both that the questioner, myself, and my respondent wind up being tested.”
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“Well, then, do you say that ignorance is to
Socrates on teaching morality
24 January 2013
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 l
امروز بر آن شدی که روح خود را به سوفیستی بسپاری تا آن را بپروراند. میدانی سوفیست کیست؟ اگر پاسخ این سوال را ندانی معلوم خواهد شد نمیدانی روح خود را به چگونه کسی می سپاری و روح تو را بدتر خواهد ساخت یا بهتر.
.پروتاگوراس محاوره ای درباره تربیت است. در آغاز هیپوکراتس را می بینیم که با شوق زیادی نزد سقرا
“And have they not been shown to be cowards through their ignorance of dangers?
“Assuredly, he said.
And because of that ignorance they are cowards?
He assented.
And the reason why they are cowards is admitted by you to be cowardice?
He again assented.
Then the ignorance of what is and is not dangerous i
در این رساله سقراط با رفتن به خانه‌ی کالیاس برای ملاقات با مشهورترین سوفیست یعنی پروتاگوراس و حضور در جمعی از خردمندترین افراد آتن با او وارد بحث در خصوص فضیلت و اجزای آن می‌گردد. در نیمه‌های راه ضمنِ برشمردن اجزای فضیلت پروتاگوراس اظهار می‌دارد که شجاعت دانایی نیست و سقراط در پی اثبات نادرستی مدعای
But you cannot buy the wares of knowledge and carry them away in another vessel; when you have paid for them you must receive them into the soul and go your way, either greatly harmed or greatly benefited
In style the Protagoras is intermediate between the questioning Socrates of the early dialog