Plato: Protagoras (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521840446)

The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely, from political theory to literary criticism, from education to the nature of cowardice; but in view throughout this literary and philosophical masterpiece are the questions of what part knowledge plays in a successful life, and how we may acquire the knowledge that makes for success. This edition contains the first commentary in English on the Greek text for almost a hundred years. The commentary provides the assistance with linguistic, literary and philosophical detail that will enable students and scholars to savour to the full the pleasures of the Protagoras.

Author: Plato
ISBN-10: 0521840449
ISBN-13: 9780521840446
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2008
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d