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[Anonymous No.16020792]

I just read the Protagoras dialogue and aent looking for commentary and analysis of it online. There is almost nothing written of it, and everything I have found written on it is just a brief summary. I have only read introductory dialogues so far, but this one seemed very good. The analysis of the unity of virtue in knowledge seems like the fundamental Socratic principle that knowledge = virtue = happieness. I thought the the dialogue was a little stilted and oft interrupted by digressions, which I suppose was done deliberately by Plato but I cannot figure out to what end. I also seem to think Socrates was being far too facetious and had a tendency to respond dishonestly or at least ironically.
Is this dialogue considered to be an important one among Plato's works? Why is there so little commentary on it? And what should I read next?

[Anonymous No.16020844]

>>16020792
>There is almost nothing written of it,
you are not looking hard enough, there is decent scolarship about it, also, if you are not interested in reading all of it, the introductions are enough.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=protagoras&open=0&res=100&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def
Give it a look and read what interests you

[Anonymous No.16020855]

>>16020844
Thanks anon, very appreciated

[Anonymous No.16021644]

Inb4 archived

[Anonymous No.16021723]

>>16020792
Here's a transcript of a meticulous seminar series on the Protagoras. A bit rough to read, but the ideas and insights are great.

https://www.scribd.com/document/469496399/Leo-Strauss-Plato-s-Protagoras-1965-pdf

[Anonymous No.16021797]

>>16021723
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.16021839]

>>16021797
No problem. It's especially relevant to your issues with the digressions and fallacious arguments Socrates makes.

As for other dialogues, Theaetetus is related, there's a huge section where Socrates tries to work out the consequences of Protagoras's relativism.