Understanding Plato's Protagoras: Visual First-Read Edition

Phil Guides — Understanding Plato's Protagoras Visual First-Read Edition

This is a tutorial, not a retelling. Plato's Protagoras is a masterpiece of argumentative reversal: two experts set out on opposite sides of one question and finish the afternoon holding each other's positions.

You will watch a young man try to buy an art he cannot name, a great myth answer two hard objections, a fight over whether long speeches or short questions can find anything out, and a final stretch that turns weakness of will into a mistake in measurement.

Read the plates first. They carry the thoughts. The notes teach them. If a figure and a note disagree, reread both.

This edition includes: - Original study notes for each chapter - Original diagrams that map arguments, characters, and structure - Original charts summarizing themes and comparisons

Contents How to Read the Protagoras — What a contest between two experts is for Buying Wisdom Before Dawn — Hippocrates and the art he cannot name The House of Callias — Three celebrities and a doorman Can Virtue Be Taught? — Two objections from Athenian practice The Great Speech — Prometheus, reverence, and punishment as teaching One Virtue or Many? — Parts of a face or pieces of gold Reading Simonides — Why the poets have to be dismissed Measuring and the Laugh — Pleasure, courage, and the swap of sides

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