Protagoras and the challenge of relativism : Plato's subtlest enemy / Ugo Zilioli.
2007
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Protagoras and the challenge of relativism : Plato's subtlest enemy / Ugo Zilioli.
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., [2007]
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©2007
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x, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy.
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Introduction : Protagoras, Plato and relativism
Topic and aims
Relativism
Approaches to Plato
Structure
Perceptions and indeterminacy
The historical Protagoras
Sophistic training and philosophical education
The digression
Reading the Theaetetus
Ontological relativism
Ontological indeterminacy
Historical plausibility explained further
Differing dispositions
Wisdom and incommensurability
Protagoras in the Cratylus
The defence
Two fragments
Incommensurability
The 'objective standard' objection
The (possible) answer
The scope of Protagoras' relativism
Ethics and forms of life
Ethical relativism
The myth
Virtue and technique
Subjectivism and emotivism
Forms of life
Radical use
Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter
Plato's objections
Protagoras and inconsistency
Saying and showing
Health
Advantage
Democratic knowledge
Illusory wisdom
The self-refutation argument
Conclusions : the tools of relativism.
Topic and aims
Relativism
Approaches to Plato
Structure
Perceptions and indeterminacy
The historical Protagoras
Sophistic training and philosophical education
The digression
Reading the Theaetetus
Ontological relativism
Ontological indeterminacy
Historical plausibility explained further
Differing dispositions
Wisdom and incommensurability
Protagoras in the Cratylus
The defence
Two fragments
Incommensurability
The 'objective standard' objection
The (possible) answer
The scope of Protagoras' relativism
Ethics and forms of life
Ethical relativism
The myth
Virtue and technique
Subjectivism and emotivism
Forms of life
Radical use
Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter
Plato's objections
Protagoras and inconsistency
Saying and showing
Health
Advantage
Democratic knowledge
Illusory wisdom
The self-refutation argument
Conclusions : the tools of relativism.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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9780754660781 hardcover alkaline paper
0754660788 hardcover alkaline paper
0754660788 hardcover alkaline paper
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