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Protagoras, the Glossary

Protagoras (Πρωταγόρας)Guthrie, p. 262–263.^[1]

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420s BC deaths
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Abderites
Ancient Greek epistemologists
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Abdera, Thrace

Abdera is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece.

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; 500 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Protagoras and Anaxagoras are 420s BC deaths and 5th-century BC Greek philosophers.

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Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet.

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Arete

() is a concept in ancient Greek thought that, in its most basic sense, refers to "excellence" of any kind—especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue." The concept was also occasionally personified as a minor goddess, Arete (not to be confused with the mythological Queen Arete), who, together with sister Homonoia, formed the Praxidikai ("Exacters of Justice").

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Aristocles of Messene

Aristocles of Messene (Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ Μεσσήνιος), in Sicily,Suda, Aristokles was a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. Protagoras and Aristotle are ancient Greek epistemologists, ancient Greek ethicists and philosophy writers.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Asebeia

Asebeia (Ancient Greek: ἀσέβεια) was a criminal charge in ancient Greece for the "desecration and mockery of divine objects", for "irreverence towards the state gods" and disrespect towards parents and dead ancestors.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius (c. 125after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.

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Causation (law)

Causation is the "causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and end result".

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Child prodigy

A child prodigy is a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Democritus

Democritus (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people"; –) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. Protagoras and Democritus are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers, Abderites and ancient Greek epistemologists.

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Diels–Kranz numbering

Diels–Kranz (DK) numbering is the standard system for referencing the works of the ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, based on the collection of quotations from and reports of their work, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics), by Hermann Alexander Diels.

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Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laërtius (Διογένης Λαέρτιος) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers.

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Dissoi logoi

(Greek δισσοὶ λόγοι, "contrasting arguments") is a rhetorical exercise of unknown authorship, most likely dating to just after the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) based on comments within the exercise's text.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea (Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist.

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F. C. S. Schiller

Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, FBA (16 August 1864 – 6 August 1937), usually cited as F. C. S. Schiller, was a German-British philosopher.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. Protagoras and Friedrich Nietzsche are philosophy writers.

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Geometry

Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

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Grounding is a topic in metaphysics.

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Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum (p) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Hippias

Hippias of Elis (Ἱππίας ὁ Ἠλεῖος; late 5th century BC) was a Greek sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates. Protagoras and Hippias are sophists.

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Individual

An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Protagoras and Jeremy Bentham are philosophy writers.

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John Burnet (classicist)

John Burnet, FBA (9 December 1863 – 26 May 1928) was a Scottish classicist.

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John Daniel Wild

John Daniel Wild (April 10, 1902 – October 23, 1972) was a twentieth-century American philosopher.

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Joseph Margolis

Joseph Zalman Margolis (May 16, 1924 – June 8, 2021) was an American philosopher.

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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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Law of obligations

The law of obligations is one branch of private law under the civil law legal system and so-called "mixed" legal systems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Meno

Meno (Μένων, Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.

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Natural environment

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Paradox of the Court

The Paradox of the Court, also known as the counterdilemma of Euathlus or Protagoras' paradox, is a paradox originating in ancient Greece.

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Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia. Protagoras and Parmenides are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers and ancient Greek epistemologists.

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Pericles

Pericles (Περικλῆς; – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. Protagoras and Pericles are 490s BC births.

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Phenomenalism

In metaphysics, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects cannot justifiably be said to exist in themselves, but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. redness, hardness, softness, sweetness, etc.) situated in time and in space.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. Protagoras and Plato are ancient Greek epistemologists and ancient Greek ethicists.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Porter (carrier)

A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others.

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Praeparatio evangelica

Preparation for the Gospel (Εὐαγγελικὴ προπαρασκευή, Euangelikē proparaskeuē), commonly known by its Latin title Praeparatio evangelica, is a work of Christian apologetics written by Eusebius in the early part of the fourth century AD.

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Pre-Socratic philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.

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Prodicus

Prodicus of Ceos (Πρόδικος ὁ Κεῖος, Pródikos ho Keios; c. 465 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek philosopher, and part of the first generation of Sophists. Protagoras and Prodicus are sophists.

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Protagoras (dialogue)

Protagoras (Πρωταγόρας) is a dialogue by Plato.

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Pure mathematics

Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics.

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Pyrrhonism

Pyrrhonism is an Ancient Greek school of philosophical skepticism which rejects dogma and advocates the suspension of judgement over the truth of all beliefs.

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Reality

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual.

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Relativism

Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assessed.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

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Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus (Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician with Roman citizenship. Protagoras and Sextus Empiricus are ancient Greek epistemologists.

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Socrates

Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. Protagoras and Socrates are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers, ancient Greek epistemologists and ancient Greek ethicists.

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Sophist

A sophist (sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Protagoras and sophist are sophists.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely available online philosophy resource published and maintained by Stanford University, encompassing both an online encyclopedia of philosophy and peer-reviewed original publication.

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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)

The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.

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Thasos

Thasos or Thassos (Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea.

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The arts

The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.

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Theaetetus (dialogue)

The Theaetetus (Θεαίτητος Theaítētos, lat. Theaetetus) is a philosophical work written by Plato in the early-middle 4th century BCE that investigates the nature of knowledge, and is considered one of the founding works of epistemology.

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Tim Whitmarsh

Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh, (born 23 January 1970) is a British classicist and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.

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Truth

Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality.

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Virtue

A virtue (virtus) is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual.

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W. K. C. Guthrie

William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1 August 1906 – 17 May 1981), usually cited as W. K. C.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Xanthi (regional unit)

Xanthi (Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ξάνθης) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Xenophanes

Xenophanes of Colophon (Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος; c. 570 – c. 478 BC) was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity. Protagoras and Xenophanes are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers and ancient Greek epistemologists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras

Also known as Homo mensura, Protagoras Of Abdera, Πρωταγόρας.

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420s BC deaths

490s BC births

5th-century BC Greek philosophers

Abderites

Ancient Greek epistemologists

Ancient Greek ethicists

Sophists

References