Akrasia w Protagorasie

The main task in this paper is to tackle a problem in the Protagoras whose solution is long overdue - the one posed by the fact that in stating and defending his doctrine of ''the unity of the virtues'' Socrates employs formulae which seem hopelessly at odds both with common sense and with the procedural assumptions of his own dialectic. The proportions of this problem are obscured in standard discussions of this passage.