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Ode to Scopas in Plato\'s Protagoras: discourses about areté
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| Author(s): |
Silvia Maria Marinho Galvao Anderson
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Paula da Cunha Correa;
Maria das Graças de Moraes Augusto;
Marcos Martinho dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Paula da Cunha Correa |
| Abstract | |
The present research has the aim of studying Simonides Ode to Scopas in Platos Protagoras. Throughout the dialogue the difference between sophistic and philosophic discourse is highlighted by Socrates. Dialectic sections which study the areté, are intermingled with rhetorical sections in which political areté is approached. While in the former, human excellence is examined, in the sophistic sections the investigation is upon civic nómos. Simonides poem praises the healthy man that acts according to the nómos, as opposed to the morally irreprehensible man. Through Socrates analysis of the poem, poetic discourse is compared to the rhetorical one. It can be concluded that dialectic discourse is the only method through which it is possible to reach the truth of areté. (AU) | |