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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 ...
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 was a fifth century Greek thinker who taught rhetoric and was influential in human philosophy. He is known for his man-measure doctrine, his agnosticism, and his influence on Plato and Socrates.
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. Plato named one of his dialogues after him. Protagoras taught as a Sophist for.
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Nov 3, 2008 · A dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras, a famous Sophist, on the nature and teaching of virtue. Socrates challenges Protagoras' views on the universality and unity of virtue, and the relation between justice and holiness.
Sep 2, 2009 · Protagoras was a Greek teacher of rhetoric, politics, and logic who promoted the view that everything is relative to individual interpretation. He is known for his phrase "man is the measure of all things" and his dialogue with Plato, who opposed his relativism.
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.
