Plato's anti-hedonism and the Protagoras /
Plato often rejects hedonism, but in the Protagoras, Plato's Socrates seems to endorse hedonism. In this book, J. Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism. He shows that Plato places hedonism at the core of a...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.