Saturday, March 10, 2018

History of Western Philosophy, Russel: Ch-10 Protagoras

4/3/2016
- Sophist, special movement, confronted pre-Socrates system
- Sophist taught the art of argument at court
- Protagoras, 450 BC., chief of Sophist
- 'when men differ there is no objective truth in virtue of which one is right and other is wrong',
- Perpetual lecture tour teaching for a fee
- The excellence of Athens was artistic than intellectual (490 - 450) BC.
- Spartans defeated Athens.

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