@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Taureck,B. H. F.}, subject = {Protagoras}, note = {I 13 Protagoras/Sophist/Taureck: (~ 485-415) Protagoras is one of the first and most important representatives of the sophists. Forty years profession of the paid thinker. I 14 He was commissioned in 444 by the democratic Athens to formulate a constitution for the stand of Thuroi in southern Italy. In the end, like Socrates, but also Phidias and Anaxagoras, he was supposed to have been a victim of the Athenian democracy. The reason is probably his remark that he does not know anything about the existence and nature of the gods. Supposedly he was expelled from Athens and burned his books on the market. He supposedly drowned on departure in the sea storm. Banishment is now being doubted. Protagoras wrote books on science, gods, ambition and truth. None of these was preserved. Quote: "The human is the measure of all things". I 15 Our main source: Plato: "Protagoras", "Theaitetos". I 111 Protagoras/Taureck: there is no proof that Protagoras regarded humans as equal. Already in antiquity, he was interpreted differently, either phenomenally or realistically. >Democracy/Protagoras, >Ethics/Protagoras, >Logos/Protagoras, >Myth/Protagoras, >Recognition/Protagoras, >Relativism/Protagoras, >Social Contract/Protagoras, >Sophists. Additional literature on the sophists: W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016. Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005. Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972. John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003.}, note = { Taureck I B. H.F. Taureck Die Sophisten Hamburg 1995 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=858275} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=858275} }