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Protagoras
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Pro·tag·o·ras  (pr-tgr-s) fl. fifth century b.c.
Greek philosopher. Considered the first Sophist, he taught a philosophy based on his maxim "Man is the measure of all things."
Pro·tago·rean (--rn) adj.
Protagoras [prəʊˈtægəˌræs]
n
(Biographies / Protagoras (?485 bc-?411 bc) M, Greek, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, PHILOSOPHY: sophist) ?485-?411 bc, Greek philosopher and sophist, famous for his dictum ``Man is the measure of all things.''
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In the face of a hubristic, Protagorean culture where man is the measure of all things, these sciences study inescapably real things unmade and unmastered by man.
The idea of the university, again by Whalen, David M. / Modern Age
Trimalchio's feast 'becomes an exhaustive mapping of the world,' with dishes from the entire orb that bear the signs of the zodiac, but, as Conte infers, 'geography has become gastronomy'; it is 'a life completely subordinated to the needs of the body, a life in which food becomes a Protagorean "measure of all things"' (1996, 122-123; cf.
The sublime and the bovine: Petronius' Satyricon and Gustave ... by Endres, Nikolai / Ancient Narrative
particular persons, when pushed to its logical extremes, relativism tends to decompose, disintegrate (I don't mean this pejoratively, of course, but rather descriptively) to the position of Protagorean subjectivism.
Ethical principles, criteria, and the meaning of life by Mijuskovic, Ben / Journal of Thought
 
 
 
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