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Notable ideas. 'Sophist' as teacher for hire, man–measure doctrine ('Man is the measure of all things') Protagoras ( / prəʊˈtæɡəˌræs /; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c.490 BC – c. 420 BC) [1] was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato ...
Sep 8, 2020 · Protagoras (490–420 BCE ca) was one of the most important sophists and exerted considerable influence in fifth-century intellectual debates. His teaching had a practical and concrete goal, and many of the surviving testimonies and fragments suggest that it was mainly devoted to the development of argumentative techniques.
Protagoras’ notion that judgments and knowledge are in some way relative to the person judging or knowing has been very influential, and is still widely discussed in contemporary philosophy. Protagoras’ influence on the history of philosophy has been significant.
Protagoras was a thinker and teacher, the first and most famous of the Greek Sophists. Protagoras spent most of his life at Athens, where he considerably influenced contemporary thought on moral and political questions.
Nov 3, 2008 · Protagoras began by asserting, and Socrates by denying, the teachableness of virtue, and now the latter ends by affirming that virtue is knowledge, which is the most teachable of all things, while Protagoras has been striving to show that virtue is not knowledge, and this is almost equivalent to saying that virtue cannot be taught.
Protagoras is one of Plato’s earliest Socratic dialogues and was probably written around 385 BCE. It describes philosophy’s equivalent to a heavyweight boxing match: Socrates’s encounter with Protagoras, the most famous Sophist of Ancient Greece.
Sep 2, 2009 · Protagoras of Abdera (l. c. 485-415 BCE) is considered the greatest of the Sophists of ancient Greece and the first philosopher in the West to promote Subjectivism...
Protagoras answers, 'That he will make him a better and a wiser man.' 'But in what will he be better?'—Socrates desires to have a more precise answer. Protagoras replies, 'That he will teach him prudence in affairs private and public; in short, the science or knowledge of human life.'
Jul 1, 2024 · Quick Reference. Of Abdera ( c. 490–420 bc), the most celebrated of the sophists. He travelled widely throughout the Greek world, including several visits to Athens, where he was associated with Pericles. He was invited to write the constitution for the Athenian colony of Thurii.
Notes to Protagoras 1. Protagoras, like many thinkers of his day, does not distinguish between the mind and sense-perceptions as though they concerned two completely different domains (i.e. the intelligible world and the sensible one): cf. 80A1 DK on the soul.
