Book, Protagoras by Plato: Works 3[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In Protagoras, Plato introduces the discussion on one of the central themes of ancient moral reflection, the unity of virtues, which will have repercussions both on the development of his own philosophy, in dialogues such as the Republic, as well as on the thought of Aristotle and on the debates within Stoicism.. The question arises from a controversy between the characters Socrates and Protagoras about the possibility of teaching virtue to young people, since the sophists arrogated to themselves the power to educate them and prepare them for public life in the democracy of Athens.. From this clash between two antagonistic conceptions of virtue, between two conflicting models of education, the opposition between philosophy, in the figure of Socrates, and sophistry, in that of Protagoras, was consolidated within Platonic thought, as two intellectual strands in dispute for the primacy of wisdom in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.. In this edition of the Textos collection, Perspectiva brings to the public a new translation into Portuguese made directly from the Greek, with notes and comments, by one of the experts on Platonic thought in Brazil, Daniel RN. Lopes, also author of the meticulous study that accompanies the work, which aims to understand the philosophical problems addressed by Plato in light of the dramatic and literary elements that constitute the dialogic genre.