Protagoras was an important thinker of the fifth century B.C., the most famous of the so-called Sophists. Here, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism.
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Protagoras was an important thinker of the fifth century B.C., the most famous of the so-called Sophists. Here, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism.