“Cheaters Win When They Make the Rules: Sophistic Ethics in Protagoras’ Prometheus Myth.”.

Electra 4:153-174 (2018)
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Despite Protagoras’ infamous reputation for corrupting his students, his “Great Speech” (Plato, Protagoras 320c-328d) presents one of the most important arguments in the history of ethics. Refuting Socrates’ contention that virtue must be unteachable since even the best of men cannot raise good children, Protagoras argues that everyone is capable of learning the difference between right and wrong.

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