Zilioli, Ugo, 1971-
Protagoras and the challenge of relativism Plato's subtlest enemy / [electronic resource] : Ugo Zilioli. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007. - x, 160 p. : ill. - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy . - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.
Introduction : Protagoras, Plato and relativism -- Topic and aims -- Relativism -- Approaches to Plato -- Structure -- Perceptions and indeterminacy -- The historical Protagoras -- Sophistic training and philosophical education -- The digression -- Reading the Theaetetus -- Ontological relativism -- Ontological indeterminacy -- Historical plausibility explained further -- Differing dispositions -- Wisdom and incommensurability -- Protagoras in the Cratylus -- The defence -- Two fragments -- Incommensurability -- The 'objective standard' objection -- The (possible) answer -- The scope of Protagoras' relativism -- Ethics and forms of life -- Ethical relativism -- The myth -- Virtue and technique -- Subjectivism and emotivism -- Forms of life -- Radical use -- Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter -- Plato's objections -- Protagoras and inconsistency -- Saying and showing -- Health -- Advantage -- Democratic knowledge -- Illusory wisdom -- The self-refutation argument -- Conclusions : the tools of relativism.
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Protagoras.
Relativity.
Electronic books.
B305.P84 / Z55 2007eb
183/.1
Protagoras and the challenge of relativism Plato's subtlest enemy / [electronic resource] : Ugo Zilioli. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2007. - x, 160 p. : ill. - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy . - Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.
Introduction : Protagoras, Plato and relativism -- Topic and aims -- Relativism -- Approaches to Plato -- Structure -- Perceptions and indeterminacy -- The historical Protagoras -- Sophistic training and philosophical education -- The digression -- Reading the Theaetetus -- Ontological relativism -- Ontological indeterminacy -- Historical plausibility explained further -- Differing dispositions -- Wisdom and incommensurability -- Protagoras in the Cratylus -- The defence -- Two fragments -- Incommensurability -- The 'objective standard' objection -- The (possible) answer -- The scope of Protagoras' relativism -- Ethics and forms of life -- Ethical relativism -- The myth -- Virtue and technique -- Subjectivism and emotivism -- Forms of life -- Radical use -- Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter -- Plato's objections -- Protagoras and inconsistency -- Saying and showing -- Health -- Advantage -- Democratic knowledge -- Illusory wisdom -- The self-refutation argument -- Conclusions : the tools of relativism.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA755819 bnb
Uk
Protagoras.
Relativity.
Electronic books.
B305.P84 / Z55 2007eb
183/.1