Dialogue

  1 Intro|        and perhaps even with the Protagoras and the Laches.~But when
  2 Intro|       the friend and disciple of Protagoras, but he is very reluctant
  3 Intro|        advanced in years, of the Protagoras and Symposium; he is still
  4 Intro|          traced the connexion of Protagoras and Heracleitus, or have
  5 Intro|           for the adversaries of Protagoras are as good a measure as
  6 Intro|      tumbling to pieces. Nor can Protagoras himself maintain that one
  7 Intro|         account of the theory of Protagoras; and he is also uncertain (
  8 Intro|         to be decided: (a) Would Protagoras have identified his own
  9 Intro|          instant? Of the work of Protagoras on ‘Truth’ we know nothing,
 10 Intro|        evidence of the tenets of Protagoras, or of the sense in which
 11 Intro|   Metaphysics, have mixed up the Protagoras of Plato, as they have the
 12 Intro|         Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras before him, and frequently
 13 Intro|         between the doctrines of Protagoras and Heracleitus was not
 14 Intro|   acknowledge (so Cratylus). And Protagoras, in the speech attributed
 15 Intro|        could have misrepresented Protagoras without violating the laws
 16 Intro|         follows of the thesis of Protagoras, we are criticizing the
 17 Intro|           we are criticizing the Protagoras of Plato, and not attempting
 18 Intro|     readers who do not side with Protagoras, rather than with Socrates,
 19 Intro|      great part of the answer of Protagoras is just and sound; remarks
 20 Intro|         and his own criticism of Protagoras.~The difficulty seems to
 21 Intro|    divided, as in the Laches and Protagoras, and the interest of the
 22 Intro|            That is the theory of Protagoras, who has another way of
 23 Intro|         other cold. How is this? Protagoras will reply that the wind
 24 Intro|        been the doctrine, not of Protagoras only, but of all philosophers,
 25 Intro|         and, as the followers of Protagoras remark, endless contradictions
 26 Intro|        you not say?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But Protagoras will retort: “Can anything
 27 Intro|         on which the doctrine of Protagoras is based?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then I
 28 Intro|         against this doctrine of Protagoras. For there are states, such
 29 Intro|       will now state the answer. Protagoras would deny the continuity
 30 Intro|          only. And therefore, as Protagoras says, “To myself I am the
 31 Intro|         amazes me in your friend Protagoras?’~‘What may that be?’~‘I
 32 Intro|          true, then what need of Protagoras to be our instructor at
 33 Intro|         is an enormous folly, if Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth,
 34 Intro|         is unjust to his master, Protagoras; but he is too old and stiff
 35 Intro|          takes up the defence of Protagoras, who is supposed to reply
 36 Intro|         crowing too soon; and if Protagoras, “the father of the myth,”
 37 Intro|       paid for your release.~But Protagoras has not yet made his defence;
 38 Intro|         but did you observe that Protagoras bade me be serious, and
 39 Intro|     desirous of doing justice to Protagoras, he insists on citing his
 40 Intro|         others foolish. How will Protagoras answer this argument? For
 41 Intro|          not and do not agree in Protagoras’ own thesis that ‘Man is
 42 Intro|      that all mankind, including Protagoras himself, will deny that
 43 Intro|        the truth. But if the old Protagoras could only pop his head
 44 Intro|          of men. Admitting, with Protagoras, that immediate sensations
 45 Intro|      thorough-going followers of Protagoras,—that right and wrong, holy
 46 Intro|       such as they appear, still Protagoras will not venture to maintain
 47 Intro|    liable to mistake. Now, would Protagoras maintain that man is the
 48 Intro|      which is in preparation, or Protagoras of the probable effect of
 49 Intro|         speaks ‘ad hominen.’ For Protagoras would never have amassed
 50 Intro|       doctrine of Theaetetus and Protagoras, by asserting further that
 51 Intro|         The interpretation which Protagoras himself is supposed to give
 52 Intro|        has to be cleared up. Did Protagoras merely mean to assert the
 53 Intro|       contained in the thesis of Protagoras. Probably he had no intention
 54 Intro|           Plato appears to treat Protagoras much as he himself is treated
 55 Intro|         advanced logic. To which Protagoras is supposed to reply by
 56 Intro|     immediate knowledge to which Protagoras applies the term. Theodorus
 57 Intro|      going beyond the truth; and Protagoras has equally right on his
 58 Intro|        ways.’~III. The theory of Protagoras is connected by Aristotle
 59 Intro|        connexion was admitted by Protagoras himself. His metaphysical
 60 Intro|          be described. Of course Protagoras would not have admitted
 61 Intro|        the right direction, when Protagoras said that ‘Man is the measure
 62 Intro|  doctrine attributed by Plato to Protagoras, that the mind is only a
 63 Intro|      themselves. We may say with Protagoras and Hume that what is appears,
 64 Intro|   conception of knowledge. It is Protagoras who is seeking to adapt
 65 Intro|   moments, which would say, with Protagoras, that the man is not the
 66  Thea|         is indeed the opinion of Protagoras, who has another way of
 67  Thea|           or are we to say, with Protagoras, that the wind is cold to
 68  Thea|        what an almighty wise man Protagoras must have been! He spoke
 69  Thea|         In allusion to a book of Protagoras’ which bore this title.)
 70  Thea|         Summon all philosophers— Protagoras, Heracleitus, Empedocles,
 71  Thea|     wonderful contradictions, as Protagoras and all who take his line
 72  Thea|         Well, then, suppose that Protagoras or some one asks whether
 73  Thea| hypothesis which we attribute to Protagoras?~THEAETETUS: Not as yet.~
 74  Thea|       from my own being; and, as Protagoras says, to myself I am judge
 75  Thea|           or with the great sage Protagoras, that man is the measure
 76  Thea|          me in your acquaintance Protagoras?~THEODORUS: What is it?~
 77  Thea|           why, my friend, should Protagoras be preferred to the place
 78  Thea|         this must be the case if Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth,
 79  Thea|      would assume the measure of Protagoras to apply to the gods as
 80  Thea| influenced by popular arguments. Protagoras, or some one speaking on
 81  Thea|     would have been different if Protagoras, who was the father of the
 82  Thea|      Well, you ask, and how will Protagoras reinforce his position?
 83  Thea|         I hope that you observed Protagoras bidding us be serious, as
 84  Thea|    blaming and taking offence at Protagoras on the ground that he assumed
 85  Thea|         Very true.~SOCRATES: Had Protagoras been living and answered
 86  Thea|        SOCRATES: And are not we, Protagoras, uttering the opinion of
 87  Thea|     Exactly.~SOCRATES: How then, Protagoras, would you have us treat
 88  Thea|         or any other follower of Protagoras, would contend that no one
 89  Thea|          SOCRATES: And how about Protagoras himself? If neither he nor
 90  Thea|          that the truth of which Protagoras wrote would be true to no
 91  Thea|          mankind, beginning with Protagoras, will contend, or rather,
 92  Thea|     adversary has a true opinion—Protagoras, I say, will himself allow
 93  Thea|       SOCRATES: And the truth of Protagoras being doubted by all, will
 94  Thea|          indicating on behalf of Protagoras, viz. that most things,
 95  Thea|           still the followers of Protagoras will not deny that in determining
 96  Thea|         altogether go along with Protagoras. Here arises a new question,
 97  Thea|         Suppose now, that we ask Protagoras, or one of his disciples,
 98  Thea|        disciples, a question:—O, Protagoras, we will say to him, Man
 99  Thea|        you extend your doctrine, Protagoras (as we shall further say),
100  Thea|      future?—nay, would not you, Protagoras, better guess which arguments
101  Thea|     honour which the advocate of Protagoras was just now forcing upon
102  Thea|       nearer, as the advocate of Protagoras desires; and give the truth
103  Thea|   argument about the doctrine of Protagoras has been completed, I am