Protagoras

should try to comprehend what you read. In my post to protagoras; I said, “I see you are still h**l bent on denying people in  Montana of their 1st Amendment rights, as you are in other states,their 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th Amendment rights.” This had to do with an article titled, [Montana Republican Party: Monforton's arguments revealing] The 1st Amendment rights I spoke of were the rights of Montanan's. In an earlier post, I stated, “protagoras; "hard to believe ................." But, what is not

Protagoras, in Plato’s dialogue, was a sophist who claimed that the man is the measure of all things, meaning that anything is good if it is ultimately good for something. In other words, everything is relative to the individual, the experiences, the judgment, and the interpretation. Ultimately, he thought that there was no final truth. Protagoras defended the common sense to which he related moral truth. He claimed that a common individual’s idea of moral truth was most likely a correct one. In

Can Virtue be Acquired? An Examination of the Laches, Meno, and Protagoras In the Socratic dialogues of Plato, Socrates often argues against the pretence of knowledge in his interlocutors. In the case of the Laches, Meno, and Protagoras dialogues, the pretence is the knowledge of virtue, among other things. The Laches seeks a definition of arête (virtue), the Meno examines the teaching of virtue, and the Protagoras offers a known expert the chance to defend that virtue can, indeed, be taught. Using

Protagoras responds to Socrates's challenge (how can virtue be taught) by telling a story about the creation of the animals by the gods. The gods entrust Prometheus and Epimetheus to distribute to these animals their appropriate capabilities. Epimetheus goes first, and doles out various attributes to defend each species from the predations of the others. Next, he provides the animals with different methods of protection from environmental elements and with different sources of food. Finally, he establishes

is engaging with Protagoras on behalf of Hippocrates. Protagoras is also addressing Hippocrates, and his counterparts, in making his claims about what he is able to teach. In this essay, I am concerned with reconstructing Socrates’ reasoning behind his conclusion that Hippocrates should not want to study under Protagoras. I will then offer an objection for Hippocrates, and finally from this, drawing a conclusion as to whether or not Hippocrates should pay to be a pupil of Protagoras. Socrates’ main

In Protagoras by Plato, the question “what is virtue?” is being assessed. They come to many definitions of virtue but one definition that is being discussed is that virtue has five different components, this can be seen on page 46 at 349d of Plato’s Protagoras. Protagoras states, “What I am saying to you, Socrates, is that all these are parts of virtue, and that while four of them are reasonably close to each other, courage is completely different from all the rest. The proof that what I am saying

extreme form of relativism that Protagoras claims when he asserts that man is the measure of all things in regards to truth. It seems that if all perceptions (e.g. judgments and beliefs) are equally true, there can be no room for expertise. But what is Protagoras to say of our natural inclination that such things as wisdom and the wise really do exist among individuals? If Protagoras’ relativism is to be accepted, he must explain how expertise is possible. Protagoras does not deny that some men are

philosopher: Protagoras who claims to be Sophists (professional expert in wisdom) they both use various arguments and counter arguments to prove their arguments on the topic of piety and virtue. Socrates believed that Virtues is something that could not be taught or learned, where Protagoras claimed that he can teach people “good judgement” in both personal affairs, civil issues and teach political science so that his students will become good citizens. The argument begins with Protagoras claiming that

last claim is Protagoras of Abdera (c. 485-410 B.C.), a Greek philosopher who apparently put forward a version of relativism in a treatise entitled Truth. Protagoras traveled to many city-states, taught many influential people, and became very wealthy. He was possibly the most successful of the teachers in fifth century Greece who were known as ‘sophists’. None of Protagoras' writings have come down to us, but his views are reported by others, chiefly by Plato in the dialogues Protagoras and

What does Protagoras mean when he states that “Man is the measure of all things,” and why does Plato reject such a notion? Before we answer these questions, we must first ask ourselves, what is reality? Does the world have a reality independent of the one you and I perceive? Are qualities such as right and wrong, correct and incorrect entirely subjective? Or are they objective properties of people, places, and things? The answers to these questions are what’s at stake for both Protagoras and Plato