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It is not difficult to see why the Protagoras and Gorgias are often considered as a pair. 1 In both, Socrates takes on a famous intellectual visiting Athens from out of town and in both Socrates and this famous visitor clash on important issues of philosophical method as well as philosophical substance.
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 argumentative techniques.
Oct 25, 2021 · Instead, Protagoras says that he, as a rhetor, can make his pupil better all his days–the means to this end, as Socrates notes, are not explicitly defined (Protagoras 330d). Agathon’s speech in Plato’s Symposium uses rhetoric in a relatable manner ( Symposium 193e–197e).
Protagoras is one of Plato ’s earliest Socratic dialogues and was probably written around 385 BCE. It describes philosophy’s equivalent to a heavyweight boxing match: Socrates’s encounter with Protagoras, the most famous Sophist of Ancient Greece.
May 9, 2007 · Stauffer proposes to use “the most direct portrait” of the Socratic life in Plato’s Apology as a guide and observes similarities with the Gorgias : the conflict between politics and philosophy, the apparent necessity of defending the Socratic life, and the prominence of rhetoric as a theme (9-12).
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.
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Why, did I not say that it was the noblest of arts? Soc. Yes, indeed, but that was no answer to the question: nobody asked what was the quality, but what was the nature, of the art, and by what name we were to describe Gorgias.
