PHIL 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter Assigned book: Akrasia, Stoicism, Proverb
26 Apr 2016
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Introduction: by michael frede (i) the place of the protagoras in moral thought (vii) the core of plato"s protagoras is a discussion between socrates and protagoras concerning virtue. As we shall see, the socrates of the dialogue suggests a particular position, according to which one"s entire life depends on the view one takes of what virtue is and of what is true about virtue . Socrates suggests that if one has the wrong views, one"s life is bound to be a failure and vice versa. Being good pertains to a matter of acting freely out of insight, and not out of social coercion. Protagoras claims that all athenians have virtue, by way of social conditioning, meaning threat or lure makes people"s behaviour relatively peaceful (at best this is an argument for. The difference according to the author is that vulgar virtue, or popular virtue, of the. Protagoras" kind amounts to behaviour of good citizens .
