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Protagoras — Socrates

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Protagoras

Πρωταγόρας

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bySocrates

At the house of the wealthy Callias, Socrates confronts the most famous sophist, Protagoras of Abdera, over whether virtue can be taught. Protagoras answers with a myth and a long speech; Socrates demands brief questions and answers. In the end the roles are reversed: Socrates maintains that all the virtues are knowledge, and therefore teachable. It is one of Plato's liveliest and most theatrical pieces.

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Authorship note

A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Protagoras — Socrates

    Protagoras

    Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009

    Translation: C. C. W. Taylor

    ISBN 9780199555659

  • Protagoras and Meno — Socrates

    Protagoras and Meno

    Penguin Classics, 2005

    Translation: Adam Beresford

    ISBN 9780140449037

  • Protagoras

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

    View in store · Project Gutenberg (gratuito)

Español

  • Protágoras o los sofistas (argumento y facsímil)

    Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Tomo 2 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.

    View in store · Filosofía en español (gratuito)

  • Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 37), 1981

    Translation: J. Calonge Ruiz, E. Lledó Íñigo y C. García Gual

    ISBN 9788424900816

    Introducción general de Emilio Lledó.

Other works by Socrates

Sources

  • Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).

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