Protagoras
Proper noun
Meaning
Protagoras
A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who famously said "man is the measure of all things".
Examples
Abusing the "orphan" of Protagoras Since Protagoras is dead, Socrates puts himself in the sophist's shoes and tries to do him the favor of defending his idea (166a-168c).
According to Diogenes Laërtius, the outspoken, agnostic position taken by Protagoras aroused anger, causing the Athenians to expel him from the city, and all copies of his book were collected and burned in the marketplace.
According to him, certainty could never be attained. citation Protagoras rejected the conventional accounts of the gods.
According to the philosophy of Protagoras, there is no absolute evaluation of the nature of a temperature because the evaluation will be relative to who is perceiving it.
According to Philodemus, Protagoras said that "The subject matter is unknowable and the terminology distasteful".
As many modern thinkers will, Plato ascribes relativism to Protagoras and uses his predecessor's teachings as a foil for his own commitment to objective and transcendent realities and values.