Epistemology after Protagoras Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus
Mi-Kyoung Lee
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Epistemology after Protagoras Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus

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Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras, the fifth-century BC Greek orator and teacher. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines the challenge to the possibility of expert knowledge posed by Protagoras, together with responses by the three most important philosophers of the next generation, Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus. In his book Truth, Protagoras made vivid use of two provocative but imperfectly spelled out ideas: first, that we are all 'measures' of the truth and that we are each already capable of determining how t...