Socrates and Hippocrates decide to go to where Protagoras is staying so that they can talk with him. After Protagoras agrees to talk with them, he goes on …show more content…
Socrates is arguing that virtue is not made up of five different parts. He is trying to convince Protagoras that courage and wisdom are the same thing. He does this saying that you can not have courage without being aware of the truth. It is not that some people are courageous and not wise, they are instead, bold. For example, someone might be bold enough to stick their hand in a fire but that is not courageous. It would be courageous if they stuck their hand in the fire knowing that the fire is hot and that it will burn them, but that takes wisdom. So what we learn from this is that we can not be courageous without wisdom. To have wisdom, you have to have knowledge, and knowledge has to be taught. But this is exactly the opposite of what Socrates started out the argument saying. He started out saying virtue can not be taught, but now he is saying you have to teach