
Protagoras
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Abdera |
Greece | |
Died | Miletus |
Interests | Relativism |
Agnosticism | |
Rhetoric | |
Ethics | |
Language | |
Semantics | |
Influenced | Plato |
Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Jeremy Bentham | |
F. C. S. Schiller | |
Philosophical era | Pre-Socratic philosophy |
Influenced by | Parmenides |
Democritus | |
Zeno of Elea | |
Job | Philosopher |
School | Sophistic movement |
Notabl idea | 'Sophist' as teacher for hire, man–measure doctrine |
Era | Pre-Socratic philosophy |
Sophism | |
Date of birth | January 1,1033 |
Influences | Parmenides |
Democritus | |
Anaxagoras | |
Zeno of Elea | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 504379 |
Protagoras Life story
Protagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.