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20th WCP: Philosophy is Education is Politics: A Somewhat Aggressive Reading of Protagoras 334d-338e Thus when the dialogue begins with Protagoras saying virtue is teachable and Socrates saying it is not, it is clear that they both have in mind teaching as done by a Sophist. Protagoras is right to fight tenaciously to resist the use of dialectic; he seems to understand that it renders illegitimate his very participation, qua Sophist, in the philosophical enterprise. This is a common enough view of teaching; in this dialogue, it sets up the paradox with which the dialogue closes. www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciCohe.htm

Cyrenaics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Protagoras, as depicted in Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, and to the skeptical epistemology of the Pyrrhonists. The Cyrenaic position bears some striking resemblance to the relativistic epistemology of the sophist www.utm.edu /research/iep/c/cyren.htm

Rationality in Plato's Protagoras Protagoras' claim to being a teacher of virtue is based on his moral eyesight, not his possession of moral truth and an ability to transmit it to others; hence, his is a claim to being a undisguised Sophist akin to a poet or prophet, not to being a man with expert knowledge of virtue. Protagoras is forced--or perhaps it is better to say provoked--out of his proffered metaphor system and into another by Socrates' cajoling and playing to the audience, and by Protagoras' own vanity. Protagoras agrees, and Socrates asks him about the converse, that some current pains, such as physical training or a doctor's treatment, are done for the sake of something further, such as health, which is good. zakros.ucsd.edu /~trohrer/metaphor/plato1.htm

Plato, Parmenides ToC: The Online Library of Liberty In the earlier dialogues the Socratic conception of universals is illustrated by his genius; in the Phaedrus the nature of division is explained; in the Republic the law of contradiction and the unity of knowledge are asserted; in the later dialogues he is constantly engaged both with the theory and practice of classification. The Parmenides belongs to that stage of the dialogues of Plato in which he is partially under their influence, using them as a sort of ‘critics or diviners’ of the truth of his own, and of the Eleatic theories. Their transcendental existence is not asserted, and is therefore implicitly denied in the Philebus; different forms are ascribed to them in the Republic, and they are mentioned in the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus, and the Laws, much as Universals would be spoken of in modern books. oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0600   (17448 words)

20th WCP: Play and Education in Plato's Republic Readers of the dialogue are warned that the spoken and written report of the proceedings is not a first hand account, but a "replay" — a retelling from memory — by Socrates, who "yesterday" stayed up all night talking with others in Piraeus about the desirability of a just life and a just society. The prominence of play (paidia) in the Republic is reflected in the interplay of the interlocutors, and is particularly prevalent in the thought and life of Socrates and his extended discussion with Thrasymachos, an arch-sophist, and with Plato's two brothers, Adeimantos and Glaucon. The dramatic form of the Republic, the character of the participants, and the social-political context of events in Athens and Greece during the time of Socrates and Plato all have important implications for the interpretation of the philosophical meaning of the dialogue. www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Educ/EducKren.htm   (4164 words)

The Benardete Archive In this dialogue a student of Parmenides attempts to determine the being of Socrates in relation, on the one hand, to the contemporary sophists and, on the other, to all philosophers prior to Socrates. A continuation of the prior course, where the Sophist’s companion dialogue Politicus, or Statesman, is considered. It is thus to be hoped that the two dialogues will illuminate each other, and unravel the ontological ground of politics and political foreground of ontology. www.benardetearchive.org /NScourses_print.html   (1708 words)

Plato's Parmenides Turnbull, Robert G. The Parmenides and Plato& Late Philosophy: Translation of and Commentary on the Parmenides with Interpretive Chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). An understanding of this important dialogue, however, must begin with those ancient presocratic philosophers who were most influential to Plato& philosophy and the Parmenides in particular: Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Heraclitus. The main characters of the dialogue are Socrates (who was then quite young), Zeno (who was nearing forty), and Parmenides (who was well advanced in years). www.integralscience.org /platoparmenides.html   (4341 words)

CMS 285: Democracy and Crisis Melian Dialogue - 416 - Alcibiades urges slaughter of Melian men; fathers a child on Melian war widow/slave Aristophanes' Clouds produces in 423 (parodied Socrates as a sophist/natural philosopher - took 3rd place; the 2nd place winner, Konnos, also parodied Socrates). abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/democracy/politics.htm   (597 words)

Plato's Gorgias : background In the dialogue, the sophist Callicles gives a most entertaining performance, as a young man with no morals, who believes that as long as he can get away with it, anything goes. He doesn't really have the answer to Callicles' uncompromising amorality, and the dialogue ends with a poetic attempt to defend the unprovable - that physical pleasure does not bring happiness, and that it is better to be on the receiving end of someone else's bad conduct than to behave badly yourself. This is the Big Question that Plato comes back to in the Republic: is it possible to find a rational, logical proof that the good life is better (ie makes you happier) than a life of self-indulgence, pleasure or crime? www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/plato/gorgias.htm   (597 words)

AnsMe Directory - Society > Philosophy > Philosophers > P > Protagoras No works of his have survived; we know of him through the writings of others, and especially through Plato's dialogue Protagoras, a rather unflattering portrait of him and his disciples in conversation with Socrates. Treats of Protagoras in connection with the other members of the Sophist school. Essay asserting that Protagoras has been misconstrued as an individual (or absolute) relativist, and should be considered a "human relativist." dir.ansme.com /society/1156059.html   (597 words)

The Symposium, by Plato (introduction) The discourse of Phaedrus is half-mythical, half-ethical; and he himself, true to the character which is given him in the Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist, half-enthusiast. The character of Alcibiades in the Symposium is hardly less remarkable than that of Socrates, and agrees with the picture given of him in the first of the two Dialogues which are called by his name, and also with the slight sketch of him in the Protagoras. The Symposium is connected with the Phaedrus both in style and subject; they are the only Dialogues of Plato in which the theme of love is discussed at length. etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /p/p71sy/introduction.html   (597 words)

Plato’s Theaetetus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] In the dialogue, he is portrayed as a friend of Protagoras, well-aware of the Sophist’s teachings, and quite unfamiliar with the intricacies of Socratic Dialectic. Scholars commonly prefer the battle of 369 BCE as the battle referred to in the dialogue. The introduction of the dialogue informs the reader that Theaetetus is being carried home dying of wounds and dysentery after a battle near Corinth. www.iep.utm.edu /t/theatetu.htm   (597 words)

20th WCP: Philosophy is Education is Politics: A Somewhat Aggressive Reading of Protagoras 334d-338e Thus when the dialogue begins with Protagoras saying virtue is teachable and Socrates saying it is not, it is clear that they both have in mind teaching as done by a Sophist. Protagoras is right to fight tenaciously to resist the use of dialectic; he seems to understand that it renders illegitimate his very participation, qua Sophist, in the philosophical enterprise. For at the end, Protagoras has taken the view that virtue is not knowledge, while Socrates is maintaining that it is. These positions do not seem to square with their earlier stands about the teachability of virtue, and thus the dialogue ends in aporia. www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciCohe.htm   (597 words)

Amazon.ca: Books: Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of the Being of the Beautiful Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Plato's Theaetetus is the first dialogue in a trilogy, (the other two dialogues being the Sophist and the Statesman). As a whole, this book will allow the serious study of Plato an excellent opportunity to *think* about the dialogue. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226670317   (629 words)

Theaetetus by Plato eBook by BookRags The allusion to Parmenides compared with the Sophist, would probably imply that the dialogue which is called by his name was already in existence; unless, indeed, we suppose the passage in which the allusion occurs to have been inserted afterwards. We cannot exclude the possibility which has been already noticed in reference to other works of Plato, that the Theaetetus may not have been all written continuously; or the probability that the Sophist and Politicus, which differ greatly in style, were only appended after a long interval of time. At the time of his own death he is supposed to be a full-grown man. Allowing nine or ten years for the interval between youth and manhood, the dialogue could not have been written earlier than 390, when Plato was about thirty-nine years of age. www.bookrags.com /ebooks/1726/2.html   (493 words)

Plato If we take Plato to be trying to persuade us, in many of his works, to accept the conclusions arrived at by his principal interlocutors (or to persuade us of the refutations of their opponents), we can easily explain why he so often chooses Socrates as the dominant speaker in his dialogues. Plato's dialogues are not a static literary form; not only do his topics vary, not only do his speakers vary, but the role played by questions and answers is never the same from one dialogue to another. One of his deepest methodological convictions (affirmed in Meno, Theaetetus, and Sophist) is that in order to make intellectual progress we must recognize that knowledge cannot be acquired by passively receiving it from others: rather, we must work our way through problems and assess the merits of competing theories with an independent mind. plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato   (6974 words)

Plato’s Theaetetus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] In the dialogue, he is portrayed as a friend of Protagoras, well-aware of the Sophist’s teachings, and quite unfamiliar with the intricacies of Socratic Dialectic. As far as his scientific work is concerned, the only existing source is Plato’s Theaetetus: In the dialogue, Theodorus is portrayed as having shown the irrationality of the square roots of 3, 5, 6, 7,... Theodorus lived in Cyrene in the late fifth century BCE. www.iep.utm.edu /t/theatetu.htm   (4442 words)

Protagoras [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] In the Protagoras, the Platonic dialogue named after the famous sophist which has both Protagoras and Prodicus as participants, Protagoras is shown interpreting a poem of Simonides, with special concern for the issue of the relationship between the writer's intent and the literal meanings of the words. Later sources describe him as one of the first to write on grammar (in the modern sense of syntax) and he seems interested in the correct meaning of words, a specialty often associated with another sophist, Prodicus, as well. Perhaps because the practical side of his teaching was concerned with helping students learn to speak well in the courtroom, Protagoras was interested in "orthoepeia" (the correct use of words). www.iep.utm.edu /p/protagor.htm   (2213 words)

Protagoras [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] In the Protagoras, the Platonic dialogue named after the famous sophist which has both Protagoras and Prodicus as participants, Protagoras is shown interpreting a poem of Simonides, with special concern for the issue of the relationship between the writer's intent and the literal meanings of the words. 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. These characteristics, though, were probably more typical of their fourth century followers than of the Older Sophists themselves, who tended to agree with and follow generally accepted moral codes, even while their more abstract speculations undermined the epistemological foundations of traditional morality. www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/protagor.htm   (2213 words)

THEAETETUS Furthermore, there's another problem, and this problem revolves around the Sophist's theory about thinking that which "is not." Suppose that one were to define false judgement as thinking of something that is not (e.g., the judgement that there is a table in a certain room when in fact there is no table in the room). Socrates will rigorously reject the extension of these doctrines, and the next stage of the dialogue is devoted to a criticism of the extreme formulations. The dialogue closes (210b-d), Socrates has been unable to assist Theaetetus in the birth of an adequate account of knowledge, In the spirit of a true Socratic encounter, both men are now more aware of their ignorance in the areas discussed. caae.phil.cmu.edu /Cavalier/80250/Plato/Theatetus/Theat.html   (2213 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.3.12 Except in cases in which an instructor sees fit to assign White's fine introductory essay on the dialogue's logical and linguistic analyses, this is the best English Sophist for both student and scholar, and promises to be the standard for many years to come. F. Cornford, Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist, New York, 1934, repr. Unlike the freer translations of Cornford and White, the language sometimes seems odd, but this is only when there are good reasons for believing that something can be learned from preserving the way in which the interlocutors actually express themselves. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.03.12.html   (2213 words)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 977 (v. 1) But the dialogue Demodo­cus is now acknowledged on all hands to be a fabrication of a late sophist or rhetorician. Among the dialogues bearing the name of Plato there is one entitled Demodocus, from the person addressed therein ; but whether this Demodocus is the friend of Socrates, and father of Theages, who is intro­duced as one of the interlocutors in the dialogue Theages, is uncertain. He is also said to have pos­sessed a knowledge of perspective. ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0983.html   (869 words)

Theaetetus.txt The allusion to Parmenides compared with the Sophist, would probably imply that the dialogue which is called by his name was already in existence; unless, indeed, we suppose the passage in which the allusion occurs to have been inserted afterwards. Theaetetus, the hero of the battle of Corinth and of the dialogue, is a disciple of Theodorus, the great geometrician, whose science is thus indicated to be the propaedeutic to philosophy. The general character of the Theaetetus is dialectical, and there are traces of the same Megarian influences which appear in the Parmenides, and which later writers, in their matter of fact way, have explained by the residence of Plato at Megara. courses.ed.asu.edu /gonzalez/APHB/ETexts/Plato/Theaetetus.txt   (21550 words)

Plato Dialogs (Dialogues) Summary The Lesser Hippias is an inferior dialogue in which Socrates argues with Hippias the Sophist about voluntary vs involuntary wrongdoing. His best dialogues are a pleasure to read--some can be tedious. He overcame Socrates' objection to thought frozen in writing by using the dialogue (dialogos) format, never overtly stating views in his own name. www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/plato.html   (5034 words)

A list of famous and perhaps not-so-famous adherents of Cultural Relativism. Note: We want to place pre-Socratic Sophists among our famous MoQites, but careful examination of their thinking shows an underlying Greek objective tenor, or a kind of unilogical ethical relativism antithetical Pirsig's MoQ. Gorgias (gôr´-jee-es), c.485-380 B.C., Greek orator, of Leontini, Sicily, rhetorician and Sophist, early adopter of cadence in prose. A leading sophist, he is notorious for his, "Man is the measure of all things." He held all truth www.quantonics.com /Famous_CRites.html   (5034 words)

Gorgias Gorgias (483-376 BC) was a Sophist from Leontini, Sicily who first traveled to Athens in 427 as an ambassador from his city. Many of Gorgias' writings are unrecovered and only excerpts exist in paraphrases such as Plato's dialogue, "Gorgias" and the "Sextus Empiricus."Gorgias was a student of Empedocles, and also used Zeno of Elea's works to support his philosophies. Gorgias employs Zeno of Elea's ideas about multiplicity and motion to support his first premise. personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/ancient/athens/Gorgias.htm   (5034 words)

SparkNotes: Gorgias: General Summary Socrates desires to question Gorgias about the scope and nature of rhetoric, so the two head towards the home of Callicles where the great Sophist can be found. Chaerephon, an apparent contemporary of Socrates, is found speaking with Plato's teacher at the beginning of the dialogue, yet says little else throughout the conversation. Gorgias is a detailed study of virtue founded upon an inquiry into the nature of rhetoric, art, power, temperance, justice, and good versus evil. www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/gorgias/summary.html   (5034 words)

The Ister: An Excerpt In Plato's dialogue, 'Protagoras', the sophist Protagoras retells the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, while engaged in a discussion with Socrates: It is a journey from the mouth of the Danube River on the Black Sea Coast to its source in the Black Forest. The following excerpt from the film commences at 1585 kilometres from the source of the Danube in what was at the time of filming named Yugoslavia, and hopefully gives the reader a sense of the relation between place, image, poetics and thought in The Ister. www.rouge.com.au /3/ister.html   (5034 words)

Protagoras [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] In the Protagoras, the Platonic dialogue named after the famous sophist which has both Protagoras and Prodicus as participants, Protagoras is shown interpreting a poem of Simonides, with special concern for the issue of the relationship between the writer's intent and the literal meanings of the words. 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 the measure of all things (which is often interpreted as a sort of radical relativism) (2) that he could make the "worse (or weaker) argument appear the better (or stronger)" and (3) that one could not tell if the gods existed or not. www.iep.utm.edu /p/protagor.htm   (2213 words)

Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus - Rachel Barney - Microsoft Reader eBook The book argues that this position is retained by Plato, against the common view that this discussion of syntax in the Sophist represents a significant departure from the Cratylus. By the end of the dialogue, however, Plato's project turns out to have a paradoxical and pessimistic result: for names are found to be a kind of imitation, and as such incapable of real correctness. This study offers a comprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's most enigmatic and controversial dialogues, the Cratylus, showing it to present a complex and unified argument for a positive conclusion. www.ebookmall.com /ebook/81981-ebook.htm   (2213 words)

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