Abstract

This paper questions three sets of claims that Davis advances in his reading of Plato’s Protagoras: (1) Socrates of the Protagoras attempts to remove the pain of uncertainty from courage, and Socrates dares to face the fearful while knowing it to be fearful; (2) Socrates’ hedonistic calculus proves to be impossible; (3) Socrates attempts to prevent Hippocrates from associating with Protagoras by showing that courage cannot be assimilated to wisdom. I offer reasons to question each of these sets of interpretive claims.