The Greek philosopher Protagoras (ca. 484-ca. 414 BC) was one of the best-known and most successful teachers of the Sophistic movement of the 5th century BC. Protagoras was born in Abdera, the native city of Democritus, and spent much of his life as an...

Protagoras of Abdera was the most renowned of the Sophists; he was also the one who, by being the first to charge tuition fees for his courses, established Sophistry as a profession. He, more than anyone else, was responsible for the two key themes of...

c. 490-c. 421 B.C. Greek sophist who said "man is the measure of all things," meaning all perceptions are true and only individuals can judge the quality of their own sensations. According to Protagoras, the phenomenal world is composed...

Protagoras (Greek: Πρωταγόρας) (ca. 490– 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Protagoras Introduction: The question, can virtue be taught? has many profound implications: Can we have a science of values? Is a science of man possible? Unless we can find a principle underlying man's behavior we cannot have a science. Similarly, unless...

RELATIVISM is the idea that where there is a disagreement about matters of fact, there is really no fact or truth of the matter. Anybody's opinion is as good as anybody else's. There is quite a lot of relativism about these days, as...

Thanks to a writing and directing career that spanned six decades—and produced more than 60 films in international theaters and on Swedish television—the name Ingmar Bergman has become a byword for probingly cinematic introspection. In the 50’s, I belonged to a critical cabal in New...