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Protagoras (c. 490 - c. 420 BC) was a Greek philosopher.
Diogenes Laertius' book "Lives of the Philosophers" is source for many early Greek philosophers including Protagoras; but this work was compiled over six hundred years after Protagoras' death and consequently not accurate. Plato also wrote about Protagoras; Aristotle regarded Protagoras as who first introduced a spiritual principle, as a sober man among the inebriated.
Protagoras' doctrines can be divided into three groups:
1. Orthoepeia: the study of the correct use of words 2. Man-measure statement: the notion that knowledge is relative to the knower 3. Agnosticism: the claim that we cannot know anything about the gods. [1]
See also
External links
- Protagoras By Plato The Internet Classics Archive.