Protagoras and the challenge of relativism
Subtitle: Plato's subtlest enemy
By: Ugo Zilioli.
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754660781
Subjects: Protagoras; Relativity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Protagoras, Plato and relativism; title: Topic and aims; title: Relativism; title: Approaches to Plato; title: Structure perceptions and indeterminacy; title: The historical Protagoras; title: Sophistic training versus philosophical education; title: The digression; title: Reading the theaetetus; title: Ontological relativism; title: Ontological indeterminacy; title: Historical plausibility explained further; title: Differing dispositions; title: Wisdom and incommensurability; title: The cratylus; title: The defence; title: Two fragments; title: Incommensurability; title: The objective standard objection; title: The (possible) answer; title: The scope of Protagoras relativism; title: Ethics and forms of life; title: Ethical relativism; title: The myth; title: Virtue and technique; title: Subjectivism and emotivism; title: Forms of life; title: Radical use; title: Inconsistency, self-refutation, and the heart of the matter; title: Plato's objections; title: Protagoras and inconsistency; title: Saying and showing; title: Health; title: Advantage; title: Democratic knowledge; title: Illusory wisdom; title: The self-refutation argument; title: Conclusions: The tools of relativism.