Sobre a unidade do Protágoras de Platão

This dissertation argues in favor of the unity of Plato´s Protagoras, taking as reference the dispute concerning 'education'. The dialogue articulates several argumentative levels: the speech in favor of the possibility of teaching virtue, the debate over the unity of virtues, the discussi...

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Autor: Joao Paulo de Oliveira Teixeira
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/BUBD-A6AKAH
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUBD-A6AKAH
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Virtude
Ensinabilidade da Virtude
Intelectualismo
Unidade das Virtudes
Hedonismo
Filosofia versus Sofística
Filosofia antiga
Platão Protágoras
Filosofia
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Sumario:This dissertation argues in favor of the unity of Plato´s Protagoras, taking as reference the dispute concerning 'education'. The dialogue articulates several argumentative levels: the speech in favor of the possibility of teaching virtue, the debate over the unity of virtues, the discussion of Simonides´ poem and the Socratic defense both of hedonism and of intellectualism. We propose to articulate the dialogue´s different parts in such a way as to show that it should be recognized as one of Plato´s great first phase dialogues. The denial of the possibility of teaching virtues on the part of Socrates, if understood in an articulated way with the thesis that virtue is something divine and unattainable by humans, anticipates the theme of philosophy, not as pre established knowledge (which is the conception sophistry makes of itself), but as a disposition of the soul for knowledge, understood as 'love of knowledge'. Likewise, hedonism and intellectualism, if read in an articulated way, anticipate the Republic´s theory of action and open the way to further determination of the field of knowledge that is specific to the philosopher: he is not interested in the impossible knowledge of all human things and activities, but rather in offering a better and more human life, providing, at the same time, more pleasure and more rationality.