Tag: Protagoras

Free Download Leo Strauss, "Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras" "
English | ISBN: 0226818152 | 2022 | 416 pages | EPUB | 579 KB
A transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s Protagoras.

Free Download Robert C. Bartlett, "Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates"
English | ISBN: 022663969X | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 760 KB
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths." As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical relativism, we must therefore look first to the sophists of antiquity-the most famous and challenging of whom is Protagoras.

Free Download Plato, Lesley Brown, "Protagoras and Meno"
English | 2006 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 0140449035 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
Two of Plato’s finest dialogues; together they offer a rich and entertaining exploration of the origins of right and wrong, hedonism, self-control, the teachability of goodness, and the sources of our knowledge.