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The paper examines the importance of Protagoras for the development of Plato's political and ethical philosophy by a close look at his dialogue Protagoras named after this sophist. The focus is, firstly, the epideictic speech of Protagoras that raises and answers the questions of the nature, unity, and teachability of virtue (aretē), of the best education (paideia) and of the best political constitution...