Protagoras
Sign in to saveProtagoras ( ; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.
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Protagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and teacher of rhetoric who lived before Socrates and is credited by Plato with being the first professional sophist—someone who taught persuasive speaking and argumentation for a fee. He matters historically because he represents an important early approach to philosophy and education that influenced how Greeks thought about language, reasoning, and knowledge.
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- 5th cent. BC
- Died
- 0420-00-00
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- La parole de Protagoras
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- Protagora
- Protágoras de Abdera. Dissoi Logoi
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Protagoras ( ; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.
Protagoras is also believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that "Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not" which was usually rendered simply as "Man is the measure of all things", interpreted (possibly wrongly, since he disagreed) by Plato to mean that there is no objective truth; Protagoras seems to have meant that each person's own personal history, experiences and expectations, developed over their lifetime, determine their judgments, opinions, and statements regarding "truth" (which is the title of the book in which Protagoras made this statement). When a person makes a judgment about a certain thing—good or bad or beautiful or unjust—that person will differ from other people's judgments because their experience has been different.