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Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Robert C. Bartlett
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Description for Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
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. With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato's two-part ... Read more
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. With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato's two-part ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226394282
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V9780226394282
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About Robert C. Bartlett
Robert C. Bartlett is the Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies at Boston College. He is the author or editor or seven books, including The Idea of Enlightenment, Plato's Protagoras and Meno, and Xenophon's The Shorter Socratic Writings, and cotranslator of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
For generations to come, this study
on account of the graceful lucidity of its prose and the penetrating depth of its interpretative analysis
will be the essential guide to Plato's rich and dramatic confrontation with the challenge of Protagoras.
Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin Near the beginning of Sophistry and Political Philosophy, the author cites Friedrich Nietzsche's observation ... Read more
on account of the graceful lucidity of its prose and the penetrating depth of its interpretative analysis
will be the essential guide to Plato's rich and dramatic confrontation with the challenge of Protagoras.
Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin Near the beginning of Sophistry and Political Philosophy, the author cites Friedrich Nietzsche's observation ... Read more