Protagoras (Πρωταγόρας) was the first to adopt the name of sophist and charge fees for their teaching (as well as receive gifts of money for the public reading of his speeches). Initiator of eristic, was also a antilogical, one of the creators of the art of rhetoric and was arguably one of the pioneers of "social contract" to show that laws are a convention for the majority to control the minority. For the latter no doubt was based on their knowledge of other cultures that gave him a broader perspective than that of most Greeks of the time.
Born in 490 BC Abdera, Meandrio son of a wealthy man who at the time, and died around 411 BC on a voyage by sea. Child is likely to receive instruction from the Magians when they passed through Thrace, because the expedition of Xerxes against Greece, possibly hosted by Meandrio himself, explaining that the Persians share their knowledge when they never did except with permission the king. Although there are sources that make disciple of Democritus seems very unlikely because the differences are possibly the reviews are due more to the influences that Democritus was the sophist. He drafted the constitution of the Turia (known Panhellenic colony under the leadership of Pericles), in which compulsory education was introduced and public. In 411 B.C. is accused of impiety by Pythodoros and his books are collected and publicly burned, primarily because of his book entitled "On the gods can not know ...". Although he escaped death during his escape by boat to Sicily.
He maintained that it was very important in the education of a man being a good connoisseur of poetry to understand and analyze the creations of poets. Like the rest of the Sophists argued that providing practical teaching arete (virtue) and so promised his disciples (Isocrates and Prodicus were among them) return home a better man from the first day we were to receive their lessons .
For Virtue says that learning needs of natural qualities and exercise. He cited that one must begin to learn from young. Stobaeus tells us (Florilegio III 29.80) as Protagoras said that nothing is art without exercise or exercise without art. " At the same time you say (in the "Protagoras" by Plato) that virtue must involve all and not participating in it must be taught and punished until a result becomes better. There also said that if one is distinguished by advance us toward virtue, we should be happy about it.
He divided the speech into four parts: desire, question, answer and order (as other versions were seven: narracción, question, answer, order, declaration, desire and call). As for the kinds of words distinguished male, female and household goods. This is because it wanted to avoid uses that he felt were inaccurate and that he saw as morphologically inconsistent or that the form did not match what he thought it was her natural gender.
Sextus Empiricus in his "Sketches Pyrrhonians" (I 216 ff) tells Protagoras that matter is fluid flow and addictions are continually coming to replace the losses, in addition to the sensations are transformed and altered according to the age and the other provisions of the body. The causes of all phenomena intelligible lie in the matter in that they depend on it. The men sometimes grasp and sometimes other properties under its provisions. So, as said Hermias in his ridicule of the pagan philosophers "(IX D.653), objects that fall under man's perception exist and those that do not fall do not exist between the forms of being. So was another of its premises that "Man is the measure of all things" and Aristotle explains it as follows in his Metaphysics: "[...] what each one would seem, has a firm reality. And if that happens, it happens that the same thing and it is not bad and is so good and all other statements in conformity with the opposing argument. [...] "" [...] If the contradictory propositions on the same subject are all at the same time, true, it is clear that all things are one. "
For Protagoras at the end of this we find the soul, based in the chest, which was nothing more than feelings, as he confirms Plato in the Theaetetus.
Crossing these moral convictions held on any issue that can hold two mutually opposed discourses valid form that could be made to look strong or too weak to either of the two opposing views. Is well situated on the opposite side to Socrates defending the objective existence of moral values.
Born in 490 BC Abdera, Meandrio son of a wealthy man who at the time, and died around 411 BC on a voyage by sea. Child is likely to receive instruction from the Magians when they passed through Thrace, because the expedition of Xerxes against Greece, possibly hosted by Meandrio himself, explaining that the Persians share their knowledge when they never did except with permission the king. Although there are sources that make disciple of Democritus seems very unlikely because the differences are possibly the reviews are due more to the influences that Democritus was the sophist. He drafted the constitution of the Turia (known Panhellenic colony under the leadership of Pericles), in which compulsory education was introduced and public. In 411 B.C. is accused of impiety by Pythodoros and his books are collected and publicly burned, primarily because of his book entitled "On the gods can not know ...". Although he escaped death during his escape by boat to Sicily.
He maintained that it was very important in the education of a man being a good connoisseur of poetry to understand and analyze the creations of poets. Like the rest of the Sophists argued that providing practical teaching arete (virtue) and so promised his disciples (Isocrates and Prodicus were among them) return home a better man from the first day we were to receive their lessons .
For Virtue says that learning needs of natural qualities and exercise. He cited that one must begin to learn from young. Stobaeus tells us (Florilegio III 29.80) as Protagoras said that nothing is art without exercise or exercise without art. " At the same time you say (in the "Protagoras" by Plato) that virtue must involve all and not participating in it must be taught and punished until a result becomes better. There also said that if one is distinguished by advance us toward virtue, we should be happy about it.
He divided the speech into four parts: desire, question, answer and order (as other versions were seven: narracción, question, answer, order, declaration, desire and call). As for the kinds of words distinguished male, female and household goods. This is because it wanted to avoid uses that he felt were inaccurate and that he saw as morphologically inconsistent or that the form did not match what he thought it was her natural gender.
Sextus Empiricus in his "Sketches Pyrrhonians" (I 216 ff) tells Protagoras that matter is fluid flow and addictions are continually coming to replace the losses, in addition to the sensations are transformed and altered according to the age and the other provisions of the body. The causes of all phenomena intelligible lie in the matter in that they depend on it. The men sometimes grasp and sometimes other properties under its provisions. So, as said Hermias in his ridicule of the pagan philosophers "(IX D.653), objects that fall under man's perception exist and those that do not fall do not exist between the forms of being. So was another of its premises that "Man is the measure of all things" and Aristotle explains it as follows in his Metaphysics: "[...] what each one would seem, has a firm reality. And if that happens, it happens that the same thing and it is not bad and is so good and all other statements in conformity with the opposing argument. [...] "" [...] If the contradictory propositions on the same subject are all at the same time, true, it is clear that all things are one. "
For Protagoras at the end of this we find the soul, based in the chest, which was nothing more than feelings, as he confirms Plato in the Theaetetus.
Crossing these moral convictions held on any issue that can hold two mutually opposed discourses valid form that could be made to look strong or too weak to either of the two opposing views. Is well situated on the opposite side to Socrates defending the objective existence of moral values.
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