Assertion: cicero's cause | /r/HasProperty | the powerful
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text: Most of the sophists argued the latter, though they did so along a spectrum of interpretation (for which our evidence rests heavily on Plato, who portrays Socrates arguing with a considerable number of sophists): for Protagoras (an itinerant teacher from Abdera who is depicted in Plato’s Protagoras and Theaetetus), the human creation of political life was a cause of celebrating human virtues and practical abilities; for Thrasymachus (an ambassador to Athens from Chalcedon, a city in Asia Minor near modern Istanbul, who is depicted in Plato’s Republic), it was a cause of condemnation, the powerful in any city imposing laws to serve their own advantage.