Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure

Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Ineke Sluiter: Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Johannes van Ophuijsen: Introduction: Protagoras of Abdera: amicus homo magis amica veritas?......Page 14
1.1. Question about Protagoras......Page 24
1.2. ‘First Sophist’......Page 25
1.3. Contemporary Views......Page 27
1.4. Later Generations......Page 29
1.5. Plato’s Invention?......Page 31
2.1. Protagoras the Philosopher......Page 32
2.2. Protagoras the Sophist......Page 36
3. The homo mensura Thesis in Doxography......Page 38
3.1. ‘No More This Than That’......Page 39
3.2. ‘All Appearances Are True’......Page 41
3.3. ‘All Things Are Relative’......Page 43
4. Conclusion: Protagoreanism in Philosophy......Page 46
References......Page 48
1. Introduction: Interpreting a Philosopical Fragment......Page 50
2. Lost in Substitution: Sextus Empiricus’ Interpretation......Page 53
3. kritêrion......Page 55
4. krinein vs. metrein......Page 57
5. metron: Semantics......Page 60
6. Measure as a Metaphor......Page 63
6.1. Due Measure of All Things:\rWisdom Literature, Morality and Cosmology......Page 64
6.2. Measurement as Emblematic for Knowledge:\rSense Perception and Scepticism......Page 66
6.3. νόμος/φύσις: Measures as Tokens of Civilization......Page 68
6.4. The Human Body as Measure of All Things......Page 69
7. The Historical Significance of\rProtagoras’ Man-Measure Statement:\rA Just-So Story......Page 71
8. The Philosophical Potential of MM: A Just-So Story......Page 73
Appendix: Common Measure:\rIncommensurability and Common Sense......Page 76
References......Page 78
1. Aristotle and Eudoxus......Page 82
2. Aristophanes......Page 85
3. Plato......Page 88
4. Plato and Aristotle Compared: A Hypothesis......Page 92
References......Page 95
1. Introduction: Protagoras on Language......Page 100
2. Protagoras’ Views on Language: The Ancient Testimonies......Page 101
3. Protagoras’ Views on Language: Modern Scholarship......Page 108
4. Orthoepeia: Protagoras and the Study\rof Correctness in Poetic Utterances......Page 109
5. Orthoepeia and Sophistic Oratory:\rCorrect logoi in the World of Man the Measure......Page 117
References......Page 121
6 Paul Demont: L\'efficacité en politique selon le Protagoras de Platon......Page 126
Références......Page 149
1. The Rationalist Theory behind the Story......Page 152
2. Protagorean Ethical Naturalism: Nomos and Phusis......Page 161
3. The Strengths of ‘Protagorean’ Naturalism......Page 171
References......Page 174
8 Bernd Manuwald: Protagoras\' Myth in Plato\'s Protagoras: Fiction or Testimony?......Page 176
1. The Great Speech and the Incorporation of the Myth......Page 177
2. Structure of the Myth......Page 182
3. Meaning of the Myth......Page 185
4. Conclusion......Page 188
References......Page 189
1. Protagoras on euboulia......Page 192
2. Patterns of euboulia......Page 195
3. Reasonable Expectation (eikos)......Page 201
4. The Two-Logoi Doctrine......Page 203
References......Page 206
10 Arnaud Macé: Privatising Perception: Plato\'s Protagoreanism (Theaetetus 154 B-157 C)......Page 208
1. How Protagoras Will Make Us\rWonder about Perception and Change......Page 212
2. A New Truth about Motion\rand a New Ontology of Action......Page 220
3. Testimonies to Protagoras’ Thought?......Page 224
4. Philosophical Effect on Plato?......Page 227
References......Page 228
11 Job van Eck: Perceptual Relativism and Change in the Secret Doctrine in Plato\'s Theaetetus 152-160......Page 230
1.1. Fine’s Criticism......Page 231
1.3. Comment......Page 233
2. The Standard Interpretation......Page 235
2.1. The Puzzles, aWrong View of Relations?......Page 236
2.2. The Quality Moving between Object and Perceiver......Page 238
2.3. Quick and Slow Movement......Page 241
3. Another Interpretation......Page 242
4. Conclusion......Page 244
References......Page 245
12 Ugo Zilioli: Protagoras Through Plato and Aristotle: A Case for the Philosophical Significance of Ancient Relativism......Page 246
1. Relativism......Page 247
2. Protagoras’ Relativism in the Theaetetus......Page 248
3. Protagoras’ Secret Doctrine......Page 252
4. Aristotle, Protagoras\rand the Principle of Non-Contradiction......Page 257
5. The Argument from Conflicting Appearances\rin Aristotle’s Metaphysics......Page 260
6. The Root of Phenomenalism and Relativism: Relativism......Page 263
7. Plato and Aristotle Sharing the Same View\ron Protagoras’ Doctrine......Page 266
References......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 272
Index Locorum......Page 318
General Index......Page 335