Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education
Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education
Daniel Price’s “Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education” follows Derrida’s re-reading of Hegel’s framing of philosophical history through to Plato’s Protagoras. Price, seeking an alternative to the Hegelian frame, inquires into the place of the virtuous subject in Plato. In the Protagoras Price finds that the unity and goodness of virtue claims our subjectivity, not vice versa. This claim on our subjectivity orients us to the task of providing a ground for the unity of virtue. This does not concern the authority of a teacher, who demands that we reject any thought that is not owned, that does not pass through the lens of self-conscious self-appropriation. Instead it signifies the emergence of subjectivity through the claims that are made upon us by language.
Keywords: Hegel, Derrida, Protagoras, Subjectivity, Virtue, Education, Ground, Plato
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