Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism: Plato's Subtlest Enemy

Ugo Zilioli

Language: English

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Description:

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.