UID:
almahu_9949703533002882
Format:
1 online resource (344 pages)
ISBN:
9789004251243
Series Statement:
Philosophia antiqua
Content:
Protagoras of Abdera, Socrates' older contemporary, is regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called sophistic movement. Instead of simply accepting the biased reports given by Plato and Aristotle about this sophist, the contributors to this volume review the complicated doxographical situation and make a case for Protagoras as a philosopher in his own right. Two major themes of this volume are Protagoras' relativism and his case for a moral and political ideal, both of which are contrasted with the metaphysical idealism of his future opponents in the Academy and the mundane conventionalism typically associated with the sophists. It turns out that rather than a parasitic force of intellectual subversion, Protagoras may have been a prolific and original thinker aiming at a coherent and comprehensive view of man's place in the world.
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Front Matter /
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Introduction: Protagoras of Abdera: amicus homo magis amica veritas? /
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A Protagonist of the Sophistic Movement? Protagoras in Historiography /
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Made to Measure: Protagoras' metron /
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Τὸν ἥττω λόγον κρείττω ποιεῖν: Aristotle, Plato, and the ἐπάγγελμα of Protagoras /
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The Most Correct Account: Protagoras on Language /
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L'efficacité en politique selon le Protagoras de Platon /
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Fangs, Feathers, and Fairness: Protagoras on the Origins of Right and Wrong /
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Protagoras' Myth in Plato's Protagoras: Fiction or Testimony? /
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Euboulia as the Skill Protagoras Taught /
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Privatising Perception: Plato's Protagoreanism (Theaetetus 154 B-157 C) /
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Perceptual Relativism and Change in the Secret Doctrine in Plato's Theaetetus 152-160 /
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Protagoras Through Plato and Aristotle: A Case for the Philosophical Significance of Ancient Relativism /
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Bibliography /
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Indexes /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ophuijsen, Johannes M. van. Protagoras of Abdera : The Man, His Measure. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 ISBN 9789004251205
Language:
English
