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Socrates And Hedonism: Protagoras 351b-358d, Donald J. Zeyl Oct 1980

Socrates And Hedonism: Protagoras 351b-358d, Donald J. Zeyl

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The weight of the evidence is heavily in favor of the antihedonist reading of the Protagoras. It is thoroughly compatible with the text of the Protagoras; it is intelligible in the light of a plausible account of Socrates' aims; and it can meet objections to it, whereas the prohedonist account creates more problems than it solves.