J. Clerk Shaw

Plato's Anti-hedonism and the Protagoras

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Produktbeschreibung

J. Clerk Shaw reconciles the Protagoras with Plato's other dialogues, arguing that the Protagoras reflects Plato's anti-hedonism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781107046658
• ISBN-10: 1107046653
• Artikelnr.: 41854592

Autorenporträt

J. Clerk Shaw is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His articles have appeared in journals including Classical Philology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Against hedonist interpretations of the Protagoras
2. Courage, madness, and spirit at 349d-51b
3. Drama and dialectic in Plato's Protagoras
4. Drama and dialectic in Plato's Gorgias, revisited
5. Shame, internalization, and the many
6. Hedonism, hedonic error, and ethical error
7. Hedonist misconceptions of virtue
8. Popular hostility to Sophists and philosophers.