This work's title character claims to be old enough to be the father of all present and references his time as a confidant of Pericles, whose son Paralus is a character.
This work's title character claims to be old enough to be the father of all present and references his time as a confidant of Pericles, whose son Paralus is a character. This work is referenced in the Nicomachean Ethics for its discussion of the weakness of the will, while, in Utilitarianism, Mill argues that Socrates presents a utilitarian argument in this dialogue. Socrates appeals to Prodicus to resolve an apparent contradiction about "being versus becoming good," which the title character introduces by quoting a poem attacking Pittacus by Simonides. It opens by discussing Alcibiades' beard and this dialog's title character is considered the first to call himself a sophist. Questioning whether virtue may be taught, for 10 points, identify this dialogue named for the man that claimed "Man is the Measure of All Things."
This work's title character claims to be old enough to be the father of all present and references his time as a confidant of Pericles, whose son Paralus is a character.
The Protagoras