The Platonic Godfather: A Note on the Protagoras Myth

Journal of Value Inquiry 16 (1):79-82 (1982)
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The author shows how Protagoras's notion that justice is teachable because it is behavioral conditioning (punishment) in cities that are gangsterism incarnate.

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Robert Zaslavsky
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Statesmanship and citizenship in Plato's protagoras.Andrew Ward - 1991 - Journal of Value Inquiry 25 (4):319-333.

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