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Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |            the patronizing style of Protagoras, the self-consciousness
  2 Intro| distinctions, which here, as in the Protagoras and Cratylus, are ascribed
  3 Intro|             Laches; and also in the Protagoras and Euthydemus. The opposition


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|           Lysis, Charmides, Laches, Protagoras, Meno, we arrived at no
  5 Intro|           mentioned by name: first, Protagoras and Euthydemus are assailed;
  6 Intro|             Are we to maintain with Protagoras, that what appears is? Hermogenes
  7 Intro|            but I have just given up Protagoras, and I should be inconsistent
  8 Intro|           satire on Prodicus in the Protagoras.~(5) In addition to these
  9 Text |         relative to individuals, as Protagoras tells us? For he says that
 10 Text |      perplexity to take refuge with Protagoras; not that I agree with him
 11 Text |             would.~SOCRATES: But if Protagoras is right, and the truth
 12 Text |        think, that the assertion of Protagoras can hardly be correct. For
 13 Text |             what he has learnt from Protagoras about the fitness of names.~
 14 Text |              if, whilst repudiating Protagoras and his truth (‘Truth’ was
 15 Text |            the title of the book of Protagoras; compare Theaet.), I were


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Intro|           Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthyphro, Theaetetus,
 17 Intro|             Dialogue; the thesis of Protagoras, that everything is true
 18 Intro|            in plan and style to the Protagoras, Charmides, and Lysis;—the
 19 Intro|             stage arrived at in the Protagoras, for Socrates is no longer
 20 Text |        employed by the disciples of Protagoras, and others before them,


Euthyphro
    Part
 21 Intro|           Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, and other Dialogues; the
 22 Intro|     mentioned as one of five in the Protagoras, but is not reckoned among


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 23 Pre  |             his later ones, say the Protagoras or Phaedrus with the Laws.
 24 Pre  |          imitations of the Gorgias, Protagoras, and Euthydemus, which have
 25 Pre  |            the Phaedrus, but in the Protagoras, in the Symposium, and to
 26 Intro|             have met already in the Protagoras and in the Symposium; in
 27 Intro|       occurs also in the Laches and Protagoras, that great Athenian statesmen,


Gorgias
    Part
 28 Intro|            in a contradiction. Like Protagoras, he is described as of a
 29 Intro|            with the Socrates of the Protagoras and Meno. As in other dialogues,
 30 Intro|         himself, in them. As in the Protagoras and Phaedrus, throwing aside
 31 Intro|           is he speaking, as in the Protagoras, of virtue as a calculation
 32 Intro|     Republic, the Philebus, and the Protagoras. There are closer resemblances
 33 Intro|         notion, which occurs in the Protagoras, that the ancient poets
 34 Intro|             some other respects the Protagoras rather offers a contrast
 35 Intro|          parallel. The character of Protagoras may be compared with that
 36 Intro|            his rhetorical manner by Protagoras in the dialogue called after


Ion
    Part
 37 Intro|        other art as a whole.~In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized
 38 Intro|             poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original


Laches
    Part
 39 Intro|             as all virtues (compare Protagoras). And after all the two
 40 Intro|          The knowledge which in the Protagoras is explained as the faculty


Laws
    Book
 41 4    |           man, as men commonly say (Protagoras): the words are far more


Lysis
    Part
 42 Intro|              compare especially the Protagoras and Theaetetus), no conclusion


Menexenus
    Part
 43 Pre  |             his later ones, say the Protagoras or Phaedrus with the Laws.
 44 Pre  |          imitations of the Gorgias, Protagoras, and Euthydemus, which have
 45 Pre  |            the Phaedrus, but in the Protagoras, in the Symposium, and to


Meno
    Part
 46 Intro|           the argument at which the Protagoras concluded.)~Socrates has
 47 Intro|       Gorgias as Hippocrates in the Protagoras to the other great Sophist.
 48 Intro|       conflict with the thirty.~The Protagoras arrived at a sort of hypothetical
 49 Intro|              Laches, Charmides, and Protagoras; the puzzle about knowing
 50 Intro|        point of time later than the Protagoras, and earlier than the Phaedrus
 51 Intro|           contended long ago in the Protagoras, that the virtues are four,
 52 Intro|            sense one (Laws; compare Protagoras).~So various, and if regarded
 53 Text |             I know of a single man, Protagoras, who made more out of his
 54 Text |       during more than forty years, Protagoras was corrupting all Hellas,
 55 Text |            he retains: and not only Protagoras, but many others are well


Parmenides
    Part
 56 Intro|            to one another. Like the Protagoras, Phaedo, and others, the


Phaedrus
    Part
 57 Intro|     parodies of the Sophists in the Protagoras. Numerous fictions of this
 58 Intro|             of mythology; as in the Protagoras he mocks at the Sophists;
 59 Text |           polish.~PHAEDRUS: Had not Protagoras something of the same sort?~


Philebus
    Part
 60 Intro|      advances have been made on the Protagoras or the Phaedrus, and even
 61 Intro|            the Charmides, Lysis, or Protagoras. Other signs of relation
 62 Intro|         same vein of thought in the Protagoras, where he argues against


Protagoras
    Part
 63 -    |                                     Protagoras~
 64 Intro|                    INTRODUCTION~The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues
 65 Intro|          consisting of disciples of Protagoras and of leading Athenians
 66 Intro|       advises him to find out ‘what Protagoras will make of him,’ before
 67 Intro|           purpose of their visit to Protagoras, asks the question, ‘What
 68 Intro|          will make of Hippocrates.’ Protagoras answers, ‘That he will make
 69 Intro|         have a more precise answer. Protagoras replies, ‘That he will teach
 70 Intro|         knowledge can be taught, if Protagoras had not assured him of the
 71 Intro|         sons political virtue. Will Protagoras answer these objections?~
 72 Intro|            answer these objections?~Protagoras explains his views in the
 73 Intro|             in a degree. Some, like Protagoras, are better than others,
 74 Intro|             with the explanation of Protagoras. But he has still a doubt
 75 Intro|        doubt lingering in his mind. Protagoras has spoken of the virtues:
 76 Intro|            names of the same thing? Protagoras replies that they are parts,
 77 Intro|            Then justice is unholy.’ Protagoras would rather say that justice
 78 Intro|           be compared with justice.~Protagoras, whose temper begins to
 79 Intro|           and therefore he must beg Protagoras to speak shorter. As Protagoras
 80 Intro|     Protagoras to speak shorter. As Protagoras declines to accommodate
 81 Intro|        unreasonable in not allowing Protagoras the liberty which he takes
 82 Intro|       inability to speak long; will Protagoras in like manner acknowledge
 83 Intro|        suggest as a compromise that Protagoras shall ask and he will answer,
 84 Intro|          will answer, and that when Protagoras is tired of asking he himself
 85 Intro|             he himself will ask and Protagoras shall answer. To this the
 86 Intro|          yields a reluctant assent.~Protagoras selects as his thesis a
 87 Intro|          Prodicus assents; but when Protagoras reclaims, Socrates slily
 88 Intro|         flatteries are addressed to Protagoras by Callias and Socrates,
 89 Intro|          are one or many?’ To which Protagoras is now disposed to reply,
 90 Intro|        knowledge—an inference which Protagoras evades by drawing a futile
 91 Intro|             and pain the only evil? Protagoras seems to doubt the morality
 92 Intro|            that knowledge is power? Protagoras agrees that knowledge is
 93 Intro|           conducted by Socrates and Protagoras on the one part, and the
 94 Intro|            and Prodicus, as well as Protagoras, admit the soundness of
 95 Intro|      coalesce in one. The assent of Protagoras to this last position is
 96 Intro|        adversary had changed sides. Protagoras began by asserting, and
 97 Intro|      teachable of all things, while Protagoras has been striving to show
 98 Intro|            enquiry with the help of Protagoras in a different order, asking (
 99 Intro|       Whether virtue can be taught. Protagoras declines this offer, but
100 Intro|            style of discussion.~The Protagoras is often supposed to be
101 Intro|              The exact place of the Protagoras among the Dialogues, and
102 Intro|      commentators, who imagine that Protagoras the Sophist ought always
103 Intro|             nature is recognized by Protagoras himself. Hippocrates readily
104 Intro|     Socrates that he shall learn of Protagoras only the accomplishments
105 Intro|       anything in the sentiments of Protagoras which impairs this pleasing
106 Intro|           much truth on the side of Protagoras as of Socrates; but the
107 Intro|          Socrates; but the truth of Protagoras is based on common sense
108 Intro|        ideas. But to a great extent Protagoras has the best of the argument
109 Intro|         pleasure is the only good,’ Protagoras deems it more in accordance
110 Intro|           is depicting an imaginary Protagoras; he seems to be showing
111 Intro|       returns to the beginning. Had Protagoras been allowed by Plato to
112 Intro|            victory of Socrates over Protagoras is in every way complete
113 Intro|            fairly brought together. Protagoras falls before him after two
114 Intro|      subjected to ‘the question’ by Protagoras. He succeeds in making his
115 Intro|         memory, and that he and not Protagoras is really a master in the
116 Intro|       argument only, but both, when Protagoras begins to break down. Against
117 Intro|    authority of the poets with whom Protagoras has ingeniously identified
118 Intro|          poets, the Laconizers, and Protagoras are satirized at the same
119 Intro|           certainly the question of Protagoras, how the two passages of
120 Intro|       evidently with an allusion to Protagoras’ long speeches. (3) The
121 Intro|           doctrines of Socrates and Protagoras, and is a facetious commentary
122 Intro|           intended to contrast with Protagoras’ exaltation of the study
123 Intro|           advanced for the Poets by Protagoras; the mistake of the Laconizing
124 Intro|        great dramatic work like the Protagoras are not easily exhausted.
125 Intro|     Socrates in the second part for Protagoras in the first. The characters
126 Intro|             It may be remarked that Protagoras is consistently presented
127 Intro|      dialectic which has overthrown Protagoras has carried himself round
128 Intro|      therefore, and not Socrates or Protagoras, has won the day.~But is
129 Intro|     considered in what relation the Protagoras stands to the other Dialogues
130 Intro|         spirit. The affinity of the Protagoras to the Meno is more doubtful.
131 Intro|  corrections of the teaching of the Protagoras; in all of them the doctrine
132 Text |                                     PROTAGORAS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
133 Text |             Alcibiades and Critias. Protagoras, Hippias and Prodicus (Sophists).
134 Text |             to accord that title to Protagoras.~COMPANION: What! Is Protagoras
135 Text |     Protagoras.~COMPANION: What! Is Protagoras in Athens?~SOCRATES: Yes;
136 Text |         drew nearer to me and said: Protagoras is come.~Yes, I replied;
137 Text |              my brother said to me: Protagoras is come. I was going to
138 Text |             What is the matter? Has Protagoras robbed you of anything?~
139 Text |        breaks, then we will go. For Protagoras is generally at home, and
140 Text |           said, as you are going to Protagoras, and will be paying your
141 Text |              you and I are going to Protagoras, and we are ready to pay
142 Text |            you Hippocrates, what is Protagoras, and why are you going to
143 Text |             appellation is given to Protagoras? how is he designated?~They
144 Text |           about yourself? What will Protagoras make of you, if you go to
145 Text |             that the instruction of Protagoras is of this nature: may you
146 Text |          account of the teaching of Protagoras.~I said: I wonder whether
147 Text |           all hazards be a pupil of Protagoras, and are prepared to expend
148 Text |             safely buy knowledge of Protagoras or of any one; but if not,
149 Text |            were intending, and hear Protagoras; and when we have heard
150 Text |             others; for not only is Protagoras at the house of Callias,
151 Text |         Callias, but we want to see Protagoras; and I must request you
152 Text |           When we entered, we found Protagoras taking a walk in the cloister;
153 Text |             of all the disciples of Protagoras is the most famous, and
154 Text |     appeared to be foreigners, whom Protagoras had brought with him out
155 Text |           us, and then walked up to Protagoras, and I said: Protagoras,
156 Text |             Protagoras, and I said: Protagoras, my friend Hippocrates and
157 Text |            When we were all seated, Protagoras said: Now that the company
158 Text |            again at the same point, Protagoras, and tell you once more
159 Text |              I have no more to say.~Protagoras answered: Young man, if
160 Text |          When I heard this, I said: Protagoras, I do not at all wonder
161 Text |            in like manner,—in what, Protagoras, will he be better? and
162 Text |        better? and about what?~When Protagoras heard me say this, he replied:
163 Text |         will freely confess to you, Protagoras, that I have a doubt whether
164 Text |          friend or stranger. Now I, Protagoras, having these examples before
165 Text |        there is still hope of them.~Protagoras ended, and in my ear~‘So
166 Text |           have missed the speech of Protagoras for a great deal. For I
167 Text |     difficulty which I am sure that Protagoras will easily explain, as
168 Text |            them; whereas our friend Protagoras can not only make a good
169 Text |            a very rare gift. Now I, Protagoras, want to ask of you a little
170 Text |          were to ask us, saying, ‘O Protagoras, and you, Socrates, what
171 Text |            only asked the question; Protagoras gave the answer.’ And suppose
172 Text |            and said, ‘Is this true, Protagoras? and do you maintain that
173 Text |          said, Socrates.~Well then, Protagoras, we will assume this; and
174 Text |            one opposite?~Yes.~Then, Protagoras, which of the two assertions
175 Text |       temperance? Is not that true, Protagoras? What else would you say?~
176 Text |           nearly the same. And now, Protagoras, I said, we must finish
177 Text |           both be put on our trial.~Protagoras at first made a show of
178 Text |           them good.~I thought that Protagoras was getting ruffled and
179 Text |         gently said:—~When you say, Protagoras, that things inexpedient
180 Text |            cheered him. And I said: Protagoras, I have a wretched memory,
181 Text |            another, and the name of Protagoras would have been nowhere.~
182 Text |            conversation; so I said: Protagoras, I do not wish to force
183 Text |         better than to hear you and Protagoras discourse. Do not deny the
184 Text |             you want to hear me and Protagoras discoursing, you must ask
185 Text |        Socrates, said Callias, that Protagoras may fairly claim to speak
186 Text |          this he yields the palm to Protagoras: but I should be greatly
187 Text |    apprehending an argument. Now if Protagoras will make a similar admission,
188 Text |           be more in the right than Protagoras; that is my view, and every
189 Text |           to me to be a partisan of Protagoras: and this led Alcibiades,
190 Text |            either of Socrates or of Protagoras; let us rather unite in
191 Text |           as Critias would beg you, Protagoras and Socrates, to grant our
192 Text |             do pray and advise you, Protagoras, and you, Socrates, to agree
193 Text |            brevity in discourse, if Protagoras objects, but loosen and
194 Text |             to you. Neither do you, Protagoras, go forth on the gale with
195 Text |           any one who is wiser than Protagoras. And if you choose another
196 Text |             go on as you desire. If Protagoras is not disposed to answer,
197 Text |             generally approved, and Protagoras, though very much against
198 Text |           you, for I am afraid that Protagoras will make an end of Simonides.
199 Text |            blames Pittacus, not, as Protagoras imagines, for repeating
200 Text |          would maintain that being, Protagoras, is not the same as becoming;
201 Text |             heard and approved; but Protagoras said: Your correction, Socrates,
202 Text |           correcting.~Alas! I said, Protagoras; then I am a sorry physician,
203 Text |        moment; for he has a wisdom, Protagoras, which, as I imagine, is
204 Text |            of praise. If I say that Protagoras or any one else is an ‘awfully’
205 Text |            is natural.~Do you hear, Protagoras, I asked, what our friend
206 Text |            mistaken, Prodicus, said Protagoras; and I know very well that
207 Text |            also incline to believe, Protagoras, that this was the meaning
208 Text |          listener.~To this proposal Protagoras replied: As you please;—
209 Text |           like the Sophists of whom Protagoras was speaking, and not by
210 Text |          this, I said, Prodicus and Protagoras, I take to be the meaning
211 Text |           made between Socrates and Protagoras, to the effect that as long
212 Text |          the effect that as long as Protagoras is willing to ask, Socrates
213 Text |          should ask.~I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask or answer
214 Text |            was asking you at first, Protagoras, and by your help make an
215 Text |           similar observations; but Protagoras would not distinctly say
216 Text |            you think, Callias, that Protagoras is fair in refusing to say
217 Text |           one another.~I think that Protagoras was really made ashamed
218 Text |             I said: Do not imagine, Protagoras, that I have any other interest
219 Text |            I said: You would admit, Protagoras, that some men live well
220 Text |             honourable.~And do you, Protagoras, like the rest of the world,
221 Text |            Uncover your mind to me, Protagoras, and reveal your opinion
222 Text |            with you, Socrates, said Protagoras; and not only so, but I,
223 Text |        probably reply: Socrates and Protagoras, if this affection of the
224 Text |            answer thus: Listen, and Protagoras and I will endeavour to
225 Text |           the like?~I believe, said Protagoras, that the world in general
226 Text |         also, if I am not mistaken?~Protagoras assented.~Then I should
227 Text |          were not?~I think so, said Protagoras.~‘And do you not pursue
228 Text |          think that they have, said Protagoras.~‘And have you not a similar
229 Text |             you cannot.’~True, said Protagoras.~Suppose again, I said,
230 Text |         will assent, will they not?~Protagoras himself thought that they
231 Text |           which you asked of me and Protagoras. At the time when you asked
232 Text |           this, and you rejoined: O Protagoras and Socrates, what is the
233 Text |           greatest. And our friends Protagoras and Prodicus and Hippias
234 Text |           you, Prodicus, as well as Protagoras (for the argument is to
235 Text |             as expectation of evil.~Protagoras and Hippias agreed, but
236 Text |          premisses; and I would beg Protagoras to explain to us how he
237 Text |           goers. (You may remember, Protagoras, that this was your answer.)~
238 Text |             And yet, Socrates, said Protagoras, that to which the coward
239 Text |         neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?~Finish the argument by
240 Text |         laughing at us and saying: ‘Protagoras and Socrates, you are strange
241 Text |            other than knowledge, as Protagoras attempted to prove, then
242 Text |            capable of being taught. Protagoras, on the other hand, who
243 Text |            of being taught.’ Now I, Protagoras, perceiving this terrible
244 Text |           your help in the enquiry.~Protagoras replied: Socrates, I am


The Republic
    Book
245 10   |          honored and loved by them? Protagoras of Abdera and Prodicus of


The Sophist
    Part
246 Intro|             a description to depict Protagoras or Gorgias, or even Thrasymachus,
247 Intro|           as well as to Gorgias and Protagoras; (2) that the bad sense
248 Intro|              as well as Gorgias and Protagoras, under the specific class
249 Intro|           but already current. When Protagoras says, ‘I confess that I
250 Intro|         earlier dialogues, e.g. the Protagoras, as well as in the later.~
251 Intro|        principal Sophists, Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicus, Hippias, were
252 Intro|          unless the argument in the Protagoras, that the virtues are one
253 Text |        referring to the precepts of Protagoras about wrestling and the


The Statesman
    Part
254 Intro|          the didactic tale in which Protagoras describes the fortunes of
255 Intro|           political science. In the Protagoras, Socrates was maintaining


The Symposium
    Part
256 Intro|            been touched upon in the Protagoras, and is alluded to by Aristophanes.
257 Intro|         slight sketch of him in the Protagoras. He is the impersonation


Theaetetus
    Part
258 Intro|           and perhaps even with the Protagoras and the Laches.~But when
259 Intro|          the friend and disciple of Protagoras, but he is very reluctant
260 Intro|           advanced in years, of the Protagoras and Symposium; he is still
261 Intro|             traced the connexion of Protagoras and Heracleitus, or have
262 Intro|              for the adversaries of Protagoras are as good a measure as
263 Intro|         tumbling to pieces. Nor can Protagoras himself maintain that one
264 Intro|            account of the theory of Protagoras; and he is also uncertain (
265 Intro|            to be decided: (a) Would Protagoras have identified his own
266 Intro|             instant? Of the work of Protagoras on ‘Truth’ we know nothing,
267 Intro|           evidence of the tenets of Protagoras, or of the sense in which
268 Intro|      Metaphysics, have mixed up the Protagoras of Plato, as they have the
269 Intro|            Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras before him, and frequently
270 Intro|            between the doctrines of Protagoras and Heracleitus was not
271 Intro|      acknowledge (so Cratylus). And Protagoras, in the speech attributed
272 Intro|           could have misrepresented Protagoras without violating the laws
273 Intro|            follows of the thesis of Protagoras, we are criticizing the
274 Intro|              we are criticizing the Protagoras of Plato, and not attempting
275 Intro|        readers who do not side with Protagoras, rather than with Socrates,
276 Intro|         great part of the answer of Protagoras is just and sound; remarks
277 Intro|            and his own criticism of Protagoras.~The difficulty seems to
278 Intro|       divided, as in the Laches and Protagoras, and the interest of the
279 Intro|               That is the theory of Protagoras, who has another way of
280 Intro|            other cold. How is this? Protagoras will reply that the wind
281 Intro|           been the doctrine, not of Protagoras only, but of all philosophers,
282 Intro|            and, as the followers of Protagoras remark, endless contradictions
283 Intro|           you not say?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But Protagoras will retort: “Can anything
284 Intro|            on which the doctrine of Protagoras is based?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then I
285 Intro|            against this doctrine of Protagoras. For there are states, such
286 Intro|          will now state the answer. Protagoras would deny the continuity
287 Intro|             only. And therefore, as Protagoras says, “To myself I am the
288 Intro|            amazes me in your friend Protagoras?’~‘What may that be?’~‘I
289 Intro|             true, then what need of Protagoras to be our instructor at
290 Intro|            is an enormous folly, if Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth,
291 Intro|            is unjust to his master, Protagoras; but he is too old and stiff
292 Intro|             takes up the defence of Protagoras, who is supposed to reply
293 Intro|            crowing too soon; and if Protagoras, “the father of the myth,”
294 Intro|          paid for your release.~But Protagoras has not yet made his defence;
295 Intro|            but did you observe that Protagoras bade me be serious, and
296 Intro|        desirous of doing justice to Protagoras, he insists on citing his
297 Intro|            others foolish. How will Protagoras answer this argument? For
298 Intro|             not and do not agree in Protagoras’ own thesis that ‘Man is
299 Intro|         that all mankind, including Protagoras himself, will deny that
300 Intro|           the truth. But if the old Protagoras could only pop his head
301 Intro|             of men. Admitting, with Protagoras, that immediate sensations
302 Intro|         thorough-going followers of Protagoras,—that right and wrong, holy
303 Intro|          such as they appear, still Protagoras will not venture to maintain
304 Intro|       liable to mistake. Now, would Protagoras maintain that man is the
305 Intro|         which is in preparation, or Protagoras of the probable effect of
306 Intro|            speaks ‘ad hominen.’ For Protagoras would never have amassed
307 Intro|          doctrine of Theaetetus and Protagoras, by asserting further that
308 Intro|            The interpretation which Protagoras himself is supposed to give
309 Intro|           has to be cleared up. Did Protagoras merely mean to assert the
310 Intro|          contained in the thesis of Protagoras. Probably he had no intention
311 Intro|              Plato appears to treat Protagoras much as he himself is treated
312 Intro|            advanced logic. To which Protagoras is supposed to reply by
313 Intro|        immediate knowledge to which Protagoras applies the term. Theodorus
314 Intro|         going beyond the truth; and Protagoras has equally right on his
315 Intro|           ways.’~III. The theory of Protagoras is connected by Aristotle
316 Intro|           connexion was admitted by Protagoras himself. His metaphysical
317 Intro|             be described. Of course Protagoras would not have admitted
318 Intro|           the right direction, when Protagoras said that ‘Man is the measure
319 Intro|     doctrine attributed by Plato to Protagoras, that the mind is only a
320 Intro|         themselves. We may say with Protagoras and Hume that what is appears,
321 Intro|      conception of knowledge. It is Protagoras who is seeking to adapt
322 Intro|      moments, which would say, with Protagoras, that the man is not the
323 Text |            is indeed the opinion of Protagoras, who has another way of
324 Text |              or are we to say, with Protagoras, that the wind is cold to
325 Text |           what an almighty wise man Protagoras must have been! He spoke
326 Text |            In allusion to a book of Protagoras’ which bore this title.)
327 Text |            Summon all philosophers— Protagoras, Heracleitus, Empedocles,
328 Text |        wonderful contradictions, as Protagoras and all who take his line
329 Text |            Well, then, suppose that Protagoras or some one asks whether
330 Text |    hypothesis which we attribute to Protagoras?~THEAETETUS: Not as yet.~
331 Text |          from my own being; and, as Protagoras says, to myself I am judge
332 Text |              or with the great sage Protagoras, that man is the measure
333 Text |             me in your acquaintance Protagoras?~THEODORUS: What is it?~
334 Text |              why, my friend, should Protagoras be preferred to the place
335 Text |            this must be the case if Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth,
336 Text |         would assume the measure of Protagoras to apply to the gods as
337 Text |    influenced by popular arguments. Protagoras, or some one speaking on
338 Text |        would have been different if Protagoras, who was the father of the
339 Text |         Well, you ask, and how will Protagoras reinforce his position?
340 Text |            I hope that you observed Protagoras bidding us be serious, as
341 Text |       blaming and taking offence at Protagoras on the ground that he assumed
342 Text |            Very true.~SOCRATES: Had Protagoras been living and answered
343 Text |           SOCRATES: And are not we, Protagoras, uttering the opinion of
344 Text |        Exactly.~SOCRATES: How then, Protagoras, would you have us treat
345 Text |            or any other follower of Protagoras, would contend that no one
346 Text |             SOCRATES: And how about Protagoras himself? If neither he nor
347 Text |             that the truth of which Protagoras wrote would be true to no
348 Text |             mankind, beginning with Protagoras, will contend, or rather,
349 Text |        adversary has a true opinion—Protagoras, I say, will himself allow
350 Text |          SOCRATES: And the truth of Protagoras being doubted by all, will
351 Text |             indicating on behalf of Protagoras, viz. that most things,
352 Text |              still the followers of Protagoras will not deny that in determining
353 Text |            altogether go along with Protagoras. Here arises a new question,
354 Text |            Suppose now, that we ask Protagoras, or one of his disciples,
355 Text |           disciples, a question:—O, Protagoras, we will say to him, Man
356 Text |           you extend your doctrine, Protagoras (as we shall further say),
357 Text |         future?—nay, would not you, Protagoras, better guess which arguments
358 Text |        honour which the advocate of Protagoras was just now forcing upon
359 Text |          nearer, as the advocate of Protagoras desires; and give the truth
360 Text |      argument about the doctrine of Protagoras has been completed, I am


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361 Intro|          Timaeus of Plato, like the Protagoras and several portions of