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Protagoras

Plato

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  • Book language: English
  • 70 pages

Protagoras is a Socratic dialogue by Plato. It recounts Socrates' conversation with the Sophist Protagoras at Callias's house, where Hippocrates seeks an introduction and the meaning of virtue and whether it can be taught are debated. It is worth listening for its lively philosophical inquiry and its portrait of Athenian intellectual life.

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Opening of the book

PROTAGORAS
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION.
The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato,
is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a
conversation which had taken place between himself and the
great Sophist at the house of Callias—'the man who had
spent more upon the Sophists than all the rest of the
world'—and in which the learned Hippias and the grammarian
Prodicus had also shared, as well as Alcibiades and
Critias, both of whom said a few words—in the presence of

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Contents

  1. PROTAGORAS
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. PROTAGORAS
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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