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'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public and private life. In this dialogue Plato... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Prodicus: Add a description of this character.
- Socrates: telling of his conversation with Protagoras to his companion
- Protagoras
- Hippocrates: accompanying Socrates to see Protagoras
- Callias
- Alcibiades
- Gorgias
- Simonides
- Critias
- Pittacus
- Zeus
- Hippias
Quotes edit
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“If you will think, Socrates, of the nature of punishment, you will see at once that in the opinion of mankind virtue may be acquired; no one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong,--only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that manner. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong which cannot be undone; he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. He punishes for the sake of prevention, thereby clearly implying that virtue is capable of being taught.”
Protagoras
Setting & Locations edit
- house of Callias: the dialogue is taking place there
- Athens
First Sentence edit
FRIEND. Hello, Socrates; what have you been doing?
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 900
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Ancient
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Ethics & Morality
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Greek & Roman
- Books › History › Europe › Greece
- Books › History › Ancient › Greece
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