The Greek Philosophers by Guthrie W. K. C. & James Warren

Author:Guthrie, W. K. C. & James Warren [Guthrie, W. K. C.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781136254789
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-05-06T15:12:25+00:00

Notes

1 I am assuming that the myth told by Protagoras in Plato’s dialogue of that name is truly mythical in the sense that the divine apparatus can be stripped away without any loss to the serious message which he intends to convey. No significance is to be attached to the fact that conscience and a sense of justice are there said to have been implanted in men at the orders of Zeus. This is perhaps not universally agreed, but not only is the mythical nature of the exposition insisted upon (and reflected in the fairy-tale beginning: ‘Once upon a time’), but any other interpretation would be inconsistent with Protagoras’s views on religion as stated elsewhere.

1 For an understanding of Socrates, the excellent article of Professor R. Hackforth in Philosophy, vol. VIII (1933) is especially to be recommended.

1 Lest any reader be taken aback by this simile, on the grounds that the Greeks knew nothing of electricity, I had better explain that the object of comparison was the stingray (Greek narké), a fish which paralyses its victims by an electrical discharge. The homely flat-nosed face of the philosopher added point to the likeness.

1 Hackforth, l.c.

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