{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-platos-protagoras-by-leo-strauss-9780226818153","title":"Leo Strauss on Plato’s \"Protagoras\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures, Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues—courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these lectures, Strauss examines Protagoras and the sophists, providing a detailed discussion of \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e as it relates to Plato’s other dialogues and the work of modern thinkers. This book should be of special interest to students both of Plato and of Strauss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669454572,"sku":"9780226818153","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20409813482268.jpg?v=1763295159","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/leo-strauss-on-platos-protagoras-by-leo-strauss-9780226818153","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}