Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism

Plato's Subtlest Enemy

Ugo Zilioli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25472-5 (ISBN)

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Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically sophisticated examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism. Zilioli relates Protagoras' relativism with modern forms of relativism, in particular the 'robust relativism' of Joseph Margolis, gives an integrated account both of the perceptual relativism examined in Plato's Theaetetus and the ethical or social relativism presented in the first part of Plato's Protagoras and offers an integrated and positive analysis of Protagoras' thought, rather than focusing on ancient criticisms and responses to his thought. This is a deeply scholarly work which brings much argument to bear to the claim that Protagoras was and remains Plato's subtlest philosophical enemy.

Ugo Zilioli is Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at Durham University, UK

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Protagoras, Plato and relativism; Perceptions and indeterminacy; Wisdom and incommensurability; Ethics and forms of life; Inconsistency, self-refutation and the heart of the matter; Conclusions: the tools of relativism; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-138-25472-X / 113825472X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25472-5 / 9781138254725
Zustand	Neuware