The Ethics of Etceteration

Abstract

This chapter takes up discussion of the complexities inherent to the debate in two major parts: first, how Protagoras’s sophistry concentrates on perpetually deferred, implicit colophons to the premises that he fails to warrant; and secondly, the chapter involves Austinian speech-act theory in Socrates’s use of the poem, concentrating more specifically on how performance colors his rhetoric in ways not readily apparent in cold recitation.