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Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras (Paperback)
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Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early
Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith
that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together
they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter
with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens.
Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the
presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned
confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly
heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of
political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of
celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions. In the
Protagoras, another important contribution to moral and political
philosophy in its own right, Socrates takes on leading
intellectuals (the 'sophists') of the later fifth century BC and
their pretensions to knowledge. The dialogues are introduced and
annotated by Malcolm Schofield, a leading authority on ancient
Greek political philosophy.
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