LEADER 03241nam 22005295 450 001 9910154288703321 005 20250123113226.0 010 $a9780226394312 010 $a022639431X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226394312 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4519383 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001558280 035 $a(DE-B1597)524361 035 $a(OCoLC)965543525 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226394312 035 $a(Perlego)1852860 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971589 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSophistry and Political Philosophy $eProtagoras' Challenge to Socrates /$fRobert C. Bartlett 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 08$a9780226394282 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart One: On the Protagoras --$tPart Two: On the Theaetetus (142a1-183c7) --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aOne 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. With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato's two-part presentation of Protagoras. In the "Protagoras," Plato sets out the sophist's moral and political teachings, while the "Theaetetus," offers a distillation of his theoretical and epistemological arguments. Taken together, the two dialogues demonstrate that Protagoras is attracted to one aspect of conventional morality-the nobility of courage, which in turn is connected to piety. This insight leads Bartlett to a consideration of the similarities and differences in the relationship of political philosophy and sophistry to pious faith. Bartlett's superb exegesis offers a significant tool for understanding the history of philosophy, but, in tracing Socrates's response to Protagoras' teachings, Bartlett also builds toward a richer understanding of both ancient sophistry and what Socrates meant by "political philosophy." 606 $aSophists (Greek philosophy) 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient 615 0$aSophists (Greek philosophy) 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient. 676 $a184 700 $aBartlett$b Robert C.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0321742 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154288703321 996 $aSophistry and Political Philosophy$92198862 997 $aUNINA