Format:
1 Online-Ressource (476 pages)
ISBN:
9780226818160
Series Statement:
The Leo Strauss transcript series
Content:
Sophistry and rhetoric : Plato's Gorgias reconsidered -- Callicles's challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias -- Sophistry, rhetoric and the philosophic life -- The turn to the Protagoras (309a-312b) -- Meeting Protagoras (312b-316c) -- Is virtue teachable? (316c-320c) -- The long speech of Protagoras : mythos (320c-322d) -- The long speech of Protagoras : mythos and logos (322d-325b) -- The long speech of Protagoras teacher of virtue -- The cross-examination of Protagoras : virtue and its parts (329d-335c) -- The first breakdown of the conversation and its aftermath (335c-341c) -- Virtue in the element of poetry (341c-347c) -- What is courage? (347c-352e) -- On the hedonism of the many (352e-356c) -- The hedonistic calculus and the problem of courage (356c-359c) -- Courage, hedonism, and the refutation of Protagoras (359c-362a) -- Summary and conclusion : rhetoric and sophistry.
Content:
"A Seminar on Plato's Protagoras offers the transcript of Leo Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras edited and introduced by the renowned scholar Robert Bartlett. In this dialogue, Socrates engaged with the sophist Protagoras. In the lectures, Strauss discusses Protagoras and the sophists in relation to the dialogue Gorgias in which Socrates engages with the meaning of rhetoric, all in light of Socrates' pursuit of the question "How ought one to live?" While Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, including his last book, he published little on the dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226818153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226818152
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strauss, Leo, 1899 - 1973 Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras" Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022 ISBN 9780226818153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226818152
Language:
English
Keywords:
Strauss, Leo 1899-1973
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Plato v427-v347 Protagoras
Author information:
Strauss, Leo 1899-1973
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