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Sep 8, 2020 · Protagoras. First published Tue Sep 8, 2020. Protagoras (490–420 BCE ca) was one of the most important sophists and exerted considerable influence in fifth-century intellectual debates. His teaching had a practical and concrete goal, and many of the surviving testimonies and fragments suggest that it was mainly devoted to the development of ...
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Aug 9, 2010 · The introduction deals succinctly with central topics, including resemblances and contrasts between the Gorgias and the Protagoras (ending with the intriguing suggestion that ‘the Gorgias is the work of an angry young man, the Protagoras the product of more detached middle age’ (p. viii)), the sophists, and specific topics in the Gorgias ...
This chapter presents a reading of Protagoras and Gorgias. The two dialogues, whatever the relative chronology, both present conversations marked by skilfull characterization and show Plato’s ability to encourage serious philosophical reflection through the interplay of vividly drawn participants. Protagoras and Gorgias also share a feature ...
Greek sophistic movement. The Greek Sophistic movement, emerging in the 5th century BCE, was characterized by itinerant teachers like Protagoras and Gorgias, who emphasized rhetoric and relativistic views on truth. These Sophists aimed to educate citizens in persuasive public speaking and argumentation, greatly influencing Athenian democracy ...
The character of Protagoras may be compared with that of Gorgias, but the conception of happiness is different in the two dialogues; being described in the former, according to the old Socratic notion, as deferred or accumulated pleasure, while in the Gorgias, and in the Phaedo, pleasure and good are distinctly opposed.
Protagoras of Abdera was one of several fifth century Greek thinkers (including also Gorgias, Hippias, and Prodicus) collectively known as the Older Sophists, a group of traveling teachers or intellectuals who were experts in rhetoric (the science of oratory) and related subjects. Protagoras is known primarily for three claims (1) that man is ...
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Abstract. The purpose of chapter 7 is to outline the role played by the Gorgias in the development of Plato’s ethical views. To start with, the characteristics and the peculiarities of rhetoric are evaluated. Then, it is presented how Socrates, although he attacks Callicles’ hedonism, maintains an instrumentalist conception according to ...
