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Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Protagoras”

[1] 书籍信息

Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Protagoras”, ed. Robert C. Bartlett, University of Chicago Press, May 2022.

[2] 编者简介

Robert C. Bartlett is the first Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies at Boston College. His principal area of research is classical political philosophy, with particular attention to the thinkers of ancient Hellas, including Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics, Review of Politics, and other leading scholarly journals. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Idea of Enlightenment, Plato's Protagoras and Meno, and Xenophon's The Shorter Socratic Writings. He is also the co-translator of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (University of Chicago Press, 2011), the author of Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates (Chicago, 2012), and a new edition of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric (Chicago, 2019).

Before coming to Boston College, Robert Bartlett served as the Arthur M. Blank/National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor at Emory University.

[3] 书籍简介

This book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

In these lectures, Strauss examines Protagoras and the sophists, providing a detailed discussion of Protagoras as it relates to Plato’s other dialogues and the work of modern thinkers. This book should be of special interest to students both of Plato and of Strauss.

[4] 书籍目录

Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
Editorial Headnote
Introduction
1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato’s Gorgias Reconsidered
2 Callicles’s Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias
3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life
4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a–312b)
5 Meeting Protagoras (312b–316c)
6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c–320c)
7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c–322d)
8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d–325b)
9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b–329d)
10 The Cross-Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d–335c)
11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c–341c)
12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c–347c)
13 What Is Courage? (347c–352e)
14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e–356c)
15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c–359c)
16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c–362a)
17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry
Notes
Index