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Single Idea 1580
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism
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Full Idea
For Protagoras the only constraint on human behaviour is that it not interfere with social harmony, the essential condition for human survival.
Gist of Idea
For Protagoras the only bad behaviour is that which interferes with social harmony
Source
report of Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE]) by David Roochnik - The Tragedy of Reason p.63
Book Ref
Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.63
The
17 ideas
from 'fragments/reports'
606
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Protagoras absurdly thought that the knowing or perceiving man is 'the measure of all things'
[Aristotle on Protagoras]
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1549
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Everything that exists consists in being perceived
[Protagoras]
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3305
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There is no more purely metaphysical doctrine than Protagorean relativism
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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3313
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If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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3317
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You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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247
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God is "the measure of all things", more than any man
[Plato on Protagoras]
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612
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Relativists think if you poke your eye and see double, there must be two things
[Aristotle on Protagoras]
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1580
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For Protagoras the only bad behaviour is that which interferes with social harmony
[Protagoras, by Roochnik]
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6016
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Early sophists thought convention improved nature; later they said nature was diminished by it
[Protagoras, by Miller,FD]
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205
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Protagoras contradicts himself by saying virtue is teachable, but then that it is not knowledge
[Plato on Protagoras]
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1659
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Protagoras seems to have made the huge move of separating punishment from revenge
[Protagoras, by Vlastos]
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1552
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He spent public money on education, as it benefits the individual and the state
[Protagoras, by Diodorus of Sicily]
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1545
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Protagoras was the first to claim that there are two contradictory arguments about everything
[Protagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
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1551
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He said he didn't know whether there are gods - but this is the same as atheism
[Diogenes of Oen. on Protagoras]
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1547
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Man is the measure of all things - of things that are, and of things that are not
[Protagoras]
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1553
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No perceptible object is truly straight or curved
[Protagoras]
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532
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Successful education must go deep into the soul
[Protagoras]
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