Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism
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Adversus Mathematicos
ancient Greek philosophy
Author_Ugo Zilioli
Book III
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Common Language
doctrine
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ethical relativism
Feverish Heat
Heraclitean Theory
Historical Protagoras
incommensurability debate
indeterminacy
measure
Measure Doctrine
ontological
Ontological Indeterminacy
Ontological Relativism
perceptual
Perceptual Relativism
perceptual theory
philosophical anthropology
Plato's Arguments
Plato's Objections
Plato's Theaetetus
Plato's Treatment
platos
Plato’s Arguments
Plato’s Objections
Plato’s Theaetetus
Plato’s Treatment
Political Virtue
protagorean
Protagorean Individual
Protagorean Relativism
Protagorean Section
PUF
robust relativism in Plato dialogues
secret
Secret Doctrine
section
Self-refutation Argument
Socratic Midwifery
sophist epistemology
treatment
Vice Versa
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754660781
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically sophisticated examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism. Zilioli relates Protagoras' relativism with modern forms of relativism, in particular the 'robust relativism' of Joseph Margolis, gives an integrated account both of the perceptual relativism examined in Plato's Theaetetus and the ethical or social relativism presented in the first part of Plato's Protagoras and offers an integrated and positive analysis of Protagoras' thought, rather than focusing on ancient criticisms and responses to his thought. This is a deeply scholarly work which brings much argument to bear to the claim that Protagoras was and remains Plato's subtlest philosophical enemy.
Ugo Zilioli is Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at Durham University, UK
