CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
Aversion of Protagoras for dialectic. Interlude about the song of Simonides
305
Ethical view given by Sokrates worked out at length clearly. Good and evil consist in right or wrong calculation of pleasures and pains of the agent
ib.
Protagoras is at first opposed to this theory
306
Reasoning of Sokrates
307
Application of that reasoning to the case of courage
ib.
The theory which Plato here lays down is more distinct and specific than any theory laid down in other dialogues
308
Remarks on the theory here laid down by Sokrates. It is too narrow, and exclusively prudential
309
Comparison with the Republic
310
The discourse of Protagoras brings out an important part of the whole case, which is omitted in the analysis by Sokrates
311
The Ethical End, as implied in the discourse of Protagoras, involves a direct regard to the pleasures and pains of other persons besides the agent himself
312
Plato’s reasoning in the dialogue is not clear or satisfactory, especially about courage
313
Doctrine of Stallbaum and other critics is not correct. That the analysis here ascribed to Sokrates is not intended by Plato as serious, but as a mockery of the sophists
314
Grounds of that doctrine. Their insufficiency
315
Subject is professedly still left unsettled at the close of the dialogue
316
CHAPTER XXIV.
GORGIAS.
Persons who debate in the Gorgias. Celebrity of the historical Gorgias
317
Introductory circumstances of the dialogue. Polus and Kalliklês
318
Purpose of Sokrates in questioning. Conditions of a good definition
ib.
Questions about the definition of Rhetoric. It is the artisan of persuasion
319
The Rhetor produces belief without knowledge. Upon what matters is he competent to advise?
319