Abstract

GONZALEZ VARELA, José Edgar. Protagoras Against Socrates: Courage and Knowledge in Protagoras 349e-351b. Prax. filos. [online]. 2021, n.52, pp.45-70.  Epub Apr 13, 2021. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i52.10651.

Towards the end of Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates and Protagoras argue about whether courage and knowledge (or wisdom) are the same. The first argument that Socrates employs to show this, and Protagoras’ response, have been subject to much discussion and disagreement among scholars (349e1-351b2). I think that no available interpretation of this debate is fully satisfactory, for they tend to favor exclusively either Socrates or Protagoras. In this paper I offer a new, more balanced and complete, interpretation, according to which, both Socrates’ argument and Protagoras’ response are reasonable and valid in the context of the dialogue, and both achieve, to some extent, their own goal.

Keywords : Pluralism; Wisdom; Virtue; Courage; Knowledge.

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