Protagoras
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Protagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and philosopher best known for his relativistic claim that "man is the measure of all things."
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosopher
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human → pre-Socratic philosopher → rhetorician → sophist → |
| associatedWith |
Abdera
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Athens → |
| birthPlace |
Abdera
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Ancient Greece → Thrace → |
| culturalContext |
Classical Athens
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| era |
Classical Greek philosophy
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → |
| floruit |
5th century BCE
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| gender |
male
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| influenced |
Gorgias
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Hippias → Plato → Prodicus → relativist traditions in philosophy → |
| influencedBy |
Greek rhetorical practice
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pre-Socratic philosophy → |
| knownFor |
agnosticism about the gods
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relativism → sophistry → teaching rhetoric for pay → |
| language |
Ancient Greek
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| legacy |
early proponent of relativism in Western philosophy
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foundational figure of sophism → |
| name |
Protagoras
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| nationality |
Greek
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| notableIdea |
"Man is the measure of all things"
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arguments can be made stronger or weaker by technique → truth is relative to the perceiver → |
| occupation |
philosopher
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sophist → teacher of rhetoric → |
| philosophicalSchool |
Sophism
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| regionOfActivity |
Ancient Greece
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Athens → |
| studentOf |
no widely attested specific teacher
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| subjectOf |
Plato's dialogue "Protagoras"
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references in Diogenes Laërtius → references in Plato's "Theaetetus" → |
| taught |
rhetoric to Athenian citizens
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virtue as a teachable skill → |
| timePeriod |
circa 5th century BCE
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| viewOnEthics |
ethical relativism
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| viewOnKnowledge |
epistemic relativism
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| viewOnReligion |
agnostic about the existence of the gods
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