Ethical Protagoreanism

In Socrates, pleasure, and value. New York: Oxford University Press (1999)
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The Gorgias seems to attack hedonism; the Protagoras seems to defend it. The resolution to this apparent inconsistency is to deny that the Gorgias attacks hedonism, in general. I argue that the target attacked in the Gorgias is hedonism of apparent pleasure: an ethical Protagoreanism.

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George Hilding Rudebusch
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