Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project vii
4. Editorial Headnote xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato’s Gorgias Reconsidered 7
7. 2 Callicles’s Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias 28
8. 3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life 55
9. 4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a– 312b) 79
10. 5 Meeting Protagoras (312b– 316c) 109
11. 6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c– 320c) 137
12. 7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c– 322d) 166
13. 8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d– 325b) 183
14. 9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b– 329d) 209
15. 10 The Cross- Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d– 335c) 236
16. 11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c– 341c) 267
17. 12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c– 347c) 297
18. 13 What Is Courage? (347c– 352e) 324
19. 14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e– 356c) 351
20. 15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c– 359c) 380
21. 16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c– 362a) 405
22. 17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry 432
23. Notes 455
24. Index 467