Protagoras and the challenge of relativism Plato's subtlest enemy /
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub. Ltd.,
c2007.
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| Series: | Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10215575 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Protagoras, Plato and relativism
- Topic and aims
- Relativism
- Approaches to Plato
- Structure
- Perceptions and indeterminacy
- The historical Protagoras
- Sophistic training and philosophical education
- The digression
- Reading the Theaetetus
- Ontological relativism
- Ontological indeterminacy
- Historical plausibility explained further
- Differing dispositions
- Wisdom and incommensurability
- Protagoras in the Cratylus
- The defence
- Two fragments
- Incommensurability
- The 'objective standard' objection
- The (possible) answer
- The scope of Protagoras' relativism
- Ethics and forms of life
- Ethical relativism
- The myth
- Virtue and technique
- Subjectivism and emotivism
- Forms of life
- Radical use
- Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter
- Plato's objections
- Protagoras and inconsistency
- Saying and showing
- Health
- Advantage
- Democratic knowledge
- Illusory wisdom
- The self-refutation argument
- Conclusions : the tools of relativism.