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Single Idea 247

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique]

Full Idea

In our view it is God who is pre-eminently the "measure of all things", much more so than any "man", as they say.

Gist of Idea

God is "the measure of all things", more than any man

Source

comment on Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE]) by Plato - The Laws 716c

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.175