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Protagoras

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Protagoras (of Abdera) (lived c. 485–c. 420 BC)

Greek sophist, or travelling lecturer. He taught rhetorical and political skills for a fee. In his dictum that ‘Man is the measure of all things’, Protagoras was probably both denying that there is any objective truth (relativism) and criticizing the theory of Parmenides and the Eleatic School that reality is single and unchanging.



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(This was the stage of the argument at which the Protagoras concluded.
Meno by Plato View in context
Of which kind also, Plato, in his Protagoras, bringeth in Prodius in scorn, and maketh him make a speech, that consisteth of distinction from the beginning to the end.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
In an early dialogue of Plato's, the Protagoras, Socrates asks Protagoras why it is not as easy to find teachers of virtue as it is to find teachers of swordsmanship, riding, or any other art.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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