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Ideas of Pindar, by Text
[Greek, c.518 - 438 BCE, Born at Cynoscephalae in Boeotia. Died in Argos.]
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S 169
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p.521
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Nomos is king
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Full Idea:
Nomos is king.
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From:
Pindar (poems [c.478 BCE], S 169), quoted by Thomas Nagel - The Philosophical Culture
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A reaction:
This seems to be the earliest recorded shot in the nomos-physis wars (the debate among sophists about moral relativism). It sounds as if it carries the full relativist burden - that all that matters is what has been locally decreed.
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