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Arguments between Protagoras and Socrates

Introduction

The most well-known of the Sophists were Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, Prodicus, and Antiphon, though some 25 others are known to us by name. Many scholars would also include Socrates among the Sophists, but his inclusion in this group is controversial. On the one hand, Plato goes out of his way to distinguish Socrates from the Sophists, yet on the other hand, the comic playwright Aristophanes clearly portrays Socrates as a Sophist in his play of 423 BCE the Clouds.

Almost no writings of the Sophists have been preserved, so we have to base our judgment of them and their intellectual contributions on two sets of secondary sources: Plato's characterization of them in his dialogues, and short paraphrases or quotations from their works in later ancient authors. In addition to this scarcity of primary sources, Plato, our most detailed source, is a hostile witness who offers an unflattering portrait of the Plato dedicated one of his dialogues, the Protagoras, which still can be read as a vivid picture, animated and colorful, but with little historical accuracy on the different types of sophists who lived in the house of Callias .

Protagoras

Protagoras of Abdera was the first and greatest of the Greek Sophists. His credited innovations include professing the title “Sophist,” charging a fee, and teaching how to speak and win on either side of any question. Protagoras's Take-Down Arguments (an analogy to wrestling) was likely his major and all-inclusive work, as rhetorical as it was philosophical. It famously began: “The human being is the measure of all things, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not.” Plato and Aristotle criticize this claim extensively, earning it a special place in the history of epistemology. Scholars debate what kind of relativism it implies, and Protagoras's purposes may not have required developing its implications. Nonetheless, Plato respected Protagoras's ideas and philosophical commitment, and the Sophist's great speech in Protagoras seems a sincere representation; used cautiously, it allows insight into his political thought. Protagoras tells a myth about human origins, in which we received, in compensation for our lack of other animal endowments, skill in the various arts, and then the respect and justice necessary to live together and survive in cities. Protagoras's On the Gods began, “Concerning gods, I am able to know neither that they are, nor that they are not, nor what kind of form they have”.

Plato

Plato was a distinguished philosopher of ancient Greece. He - the founder of a trend in philosophy and have helped its influence throughout the history of philosophy. Most people even say that the entire history of Western philosophy - it notes to Plato. He was born on about. According to legend, began to call him Plato Socrates. "Plato" - in Greek means a broad and thick. In his youth he was engaged in many sports.

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