Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
Editorial Headnote
Introduction
1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias Reconsidered
2 Callicles's Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias
3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life
4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a- 312b)
5 Meeting Protagoras (312b- 316c)
6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c- 320c)
7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c- 322d)
8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d- 325b)
9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b- 329d)
10 The Cross- Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d- 335c)
11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c- 341c)
12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c- 347c)
13 What Is Courage? (347c- 352e)
14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e- 356c)
15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c- 359c)
16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c- 362a)
17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry
Notes
Index.