One man in this text describes how all species but humans received a special power at creation because Epimetheus forgot.
The two central figures of this text are compared to "two bald men searching for a comb" in Soren Kierkegaard's dissertation. The first paragraph of J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism cites this text as foundational. It claims that pleasure is the good and one cannot be overcome by good, so the state of being "overcome by pleasure" can only result from ignorance. One man in this text describes how all species but humans received a special power at creation because Epimetheus forgot. Several men lift the ailing Prodicus out of bed in this text, in which the poetic lines from Simonides, "for a man to become good is truly hard" and "hard it is to be good," are contrasted. This dialogue is set in the house of Callias, and concludes with Socrates undermining his own argument by stating that the central concept is knowledge, and knowledge can be learned. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates debates whether virtue can be taught with a Sophist who claimed that "man is the measure of all things."
The two central figures of this text are compared to "two bald men searching for a comb" in Soren Kierkegaard's dissertation.
Protagoras