Umfang:
VIII, 222 S.
ISBN:
9781107046658
Inhalt:
"In this book, Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism"--
Inhalt:
"Plato often rejects hedonism, but in the Protagoras, Plato's Socrates seems to endorse hedonism. In this book, J. Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism. He shows that Plato places hedonism at the core of a complex of popular mistakes about value and especially about virtue: that injustice can be prudent, that wisdom is weak, that courage is the capacity to persevere through fear, and that virtue cannot be taught. The masses reproduce this system of values through shame and fear of punishment. The Protagoras and other dialogues depict sophists and orators who have internalized popular morality through shame, but who are also ashamed to state their views openly. Shaw's reading not only reconciles the Protagoras with Plato's other dialogues, but harmonizes it with them and even illuminates Plato's wider anti-hedonism"--
Inhalt:
"In this book, Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism"--
Inhalt:
"Plato often rejects hedonism, but in the Protagoras, Plato's Socrates seems to endorse hedonism. In this book, J. Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism. He shows that Plato places hedonism at the core of a complex of popular mistakes about value and especially about virtue: that injustice can be prudent, that wisdom is weak, that courage is the capacity to persevere through fear, and that virtue cannot be taught. The masses reproduce this system of values through shame and fear of punishment. The Protagoras and other dialogues depict sophists and orators who have internalized popular morality through shame, but who are also ashamed to state their views openly. Shaw's reading not only reconciles the Protagoras with Plato's other dialogues, but harmonizes it with them and even illuminates Plato's wider anti-hedonism"--
Anmerkung:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Against hedonist interpretations of the Protagoras; 2. Courage, madness, and spirit at 349d-51b; 3. Drama and dialectic in Plato's Protagoras; 4. Drama and dialectic in Plato's Gorgias, revisited; 5. Shame, internalization, and the many; 6. Hedonism, hedonic error, and ethical error; 7. Hedonist misconceptions of virtue; 8. Popular hostility to Sophists and philosophers.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Shaw, J. Clerk, 1977 - Plato's anti-hedonism and the Protagoras Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015 ISBN 9781316249666
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781316251553
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Plato v427-v347 Protagoras
;
Hedonismus
;
Plato v427-v347 Gorgias
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