Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras"

Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras"

A transcript of Leo Strauss's key seminars on Plato's Protagoras. This book offers a transcript of Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strauss, Leo
Other Authors: Bartlett, Robert C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Series:The Leo Strauss Transcript Series
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Political science > Philosophy.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Virtue.
Philosophie ancienne.
Sophistes grecs.
Vertus.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
  • Editorial Headnote
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias Reconsidered
  • 2 Callicles's Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias
  • 3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life
  • 4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a- 312b)
  • 5 Meeting Protagoras (312b- 316c)
  • 6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c- 320c)
  • 7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c- 322d)
  • 8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d- 325b)
  • 9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b- 329d)
  • 10 The Cross- Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d- 335c)
  • 11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c- 341c)
  • 12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c- 347c)
  • 13 What Is Courage? (347c- 352e)
  • 14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e- 356c)
  • 15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c- 359c)
  • 16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c- 362a)
  • 17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry
  • Notes
  • Index

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