Book, Plato's Protagoras: works 3[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In the Protagoras, Plato introduces the discussion on one of the central themes of ancient moral reflection, the unity of virtues, which would have repercussions both on the development of his own philosophy, in dialogues such as the Republic, and on the thought of Aristotle and the debates internal to Stoicism. The question arises from a controversy between the characters Socrates and Protagoras regarding the possibility of teaching virtue to young people, since the sophists claimed the power to educate them and prepare them for public life in the democracy of Athens. From this clash between two antagonistic conceptions of virtue, between two conflicting models of education, the opposition between philosophy, in the figure of Socrates, and sophistics, in that of Protagoras, is consolidated within Platonic thought, as two intellectual strands in dispute for the primacy of wisdom in the 5th and 4th centuries BC In this edition of the Textos collection, Perspectiva brings to the public a new translation into Portuguese made directly from the Greek, with notes and comments, by one of the experts on Platonic thought in Brazil, Daniel RN Lopes, also author of meticulous study that accompanies the work, which aims to understand the philosophical problems addressed by Plato in the light of the dramatic and literary elements that constitute the dialogic genre.