Protagoras

Before dawn, Hippocrates pounds on Socrates’ door: Protagoras has come to Athens. But Socrates’ first question is not what the great teacher knows—it is what he will make of a young man who trusts him with his soul.

In ancient Athens, the eager Hippocrates can hardly wait to seek out the celebrated sophist at the wealthy Callias’s house. Socrates makes him pause: before paying for instruction, shouldn’t he know what a sophist teaches—and what kind of person that teaching will make him? Their questions open into a lively contest over wisdom, education, and whether virtue can be learned. If Hippocrates cannot say what he is buying, how can he know what he is entrusting to Protagoras?

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