Single Idea 2065

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

Full Idea

We do not agree that every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people.

Clarification

A comment on Protagoras' "man is the measure of all things", which is the slogan of relativism

Gist of Idea

Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people

Source

comment on Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], B01) by Plato - Theaetetus 183c

Book Reference

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.84


A Reaction

I fully agree with this, but only because I have an optimistic view that rational people converge on the truth.