TITLE:
Protagoras’s Great Speech and the Republic
AUTHORS:
Bela Egyed
KEYWORDS:
Affect vs Virtue, Education by Practice, Conservative vs Totalitarian, Reverence and Solidarity, Two Republics
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.14 No.1,
February
9,
2024
ABSTRACT: This paper argues, first, that one can render Protagoras’s view on the teach ability of political virtue coherent by distinguishing between the affect required for achieving it and the capacity for developing these affect into fully fledged virtues. Second, the paper argues that by focusing on Books II - III of the Republic one might see an affinity between between Protagoras’s suggestion that virtuous citizens might give advice, without ruling it, in the affairs of the city and Plato’s conservative practical political theory.