Protagoras
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
2h 21m
28,032 words
en
An early, theatrical dialogue staged in a crowded Athenian house full of Sophists. Socrates begins arguing virtue cannot be taught; Protagoras argues it can. By the end they have swapped positions. Along the way: a famous myth about Prometheus and the origin of justice, a close reading of a Simonides poem, and the introduction of the hedonic calculus that the Gorgias and Republic will later attack.
