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Protagoras

Protagoras

c. 490 BCEc. 420 BCE · Abdera

Foremost Sophist; 'man is the measure of all things'; pioneer of rhetoric and relativism of values.

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Of all things the measure is man: of those that are, that they are; of those that are not, that they are not.
Protagoras, fr. DK80B1, quoted in Plato, Theaetetus 152a (also Sextus Empiricus, Adv. Math. 7.60)

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About Abdera

A wealthy Greek colony on the Thracian coast that—despite a reputation for foolish citizens—produced two of antiquity's sharpest minds: the atomist Democritus and the sophist Protagoras.

In Abdera at the same time

Leucippus, Democritus

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In the same tradition

Leucippus, Democritus

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