A Protagonist of the Sophistic Movement? Protagoras in Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23169181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noburu Notomi (0000-0002-4181-7821, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 11-36 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Protagoras of Abdera (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004251243_003 |
| OpenAlex | W2550712750 |
| ISBN | 9789004251243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Protagoras presents philosophy with a serious challenge, which ancient thinkers found hard to deal with. For this reason Plato severely criticizes him as the first sophist. Protagoras was well-known amongst his contemporaries, including the Athenians of the latter half of the fifth century BC. The testimonies show us that he was regarded as a sophist, but not necessarily in the Platonic sense. Even if the appellation 'sophist' originated with Protagoras, it may be Plato who first used it as a label for criticism. On the one hand, Protagoras is placed in the successions of philosophers and treated as a kind of dogmatist, on the other, he is regarded as a major sophist and rhetorician. Whenever Protagoras was treated (and respected) as an important contributor to rhetoric and argumentation, his doctrines, above all the homo mensura thesis, were often discussed by philosophers. Keywords: homo mensura thesis; Plato; Protagoras
Argumentation theory · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Historiography · Literature · Rhetoric · Sophist · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |