Protagoras of Abdera : the man, his measure /
Protagoras of Abdera, Socrates' older contemporary is known as the major representative of the so-called sophistic movement. Instead of simply accepting the biased reports given by Plato and Aristotle about this sophist, the contributors to this volume review the complicated doxographical situa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013
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| Series: | Philosophia antiqua,
v. 134 Philosophia antiqua ; v. 134 Philosophia antiqua ; v. 134 Philosophia antiqua v. 134 Philosophia antiqua |
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| Summary: | Protagoras of Abdera, Socrates' older contemporary is known as the major representative of the so-called sophistic movement. Instead of simply accepting the biased reports given by Plato and Aristotle about this sophist, the contributors to this volume review the complicated doxographical situation and make a case for Protagoras as a philosophy in his own right. Two major themes of this volume are Protagoras' relativism and his vision of a moral and political ideal, both of which are contrasted with the metaphysical idealism of his future opponents in the Academy and the mundane conventionalism typically associated with the sophists. It turns out that rather than a parasitic force of intellectual subversion, Protagoras may have been a prolific and original thinker aiming at a coherent and comprehensive view of man's place in the world. Book jacket "Protagoras of Abdera, Socrates' older contemporary, is regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called sophistic movement. Instead of simply accepting the biased reports given by Plato and Aristotle about this sophist, the contributors to this volume review the complicated doxographical situation and make a case for Protagoras as a philosopher in his own right. Two major themes of this volume are Protagoras' relativism and his case for a moral and political ideal, both of which are contrasted with the metaphysical idealism of his future opponents in the Academy and the mundane conventionalism typically associated with the sophists. It turns out that rather than a parasitic force of intellectual subversion, Protagoras may have been a prolific and original thinker aiming at a coherent and comprehensive view of man's place in the world."--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at a conference held at Leiden University, July 5-7, 2007 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 332 pages ; 24 cm pages cm x, 332 p. ; 25 cm x, 332 pages ; 24 cm x, 332 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-304) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004251200 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004251200 9004251243 (e-book) 9004251243 9789004251205 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004251205 9789004251243 (e-book) 9789004251243 |
| ISSN: | 0079-1678 ; 0079-1687 ; |