A Puff of Absurdity: On Measuring Well

In Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates and Protagoras argue over the language Protagoras uses to explain what happens when, as he describes it, pleasure overtakes reason and people make horrible choices.  Socrates insists that it’s not pleasure that overtakes reason, but ignorance.  Here’s some key bits of the passage: They maintain that

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