Protagoras and the challenge of relativism : Plato's subtlest enemy / Ugo Zilioli.
| Author/creator | Zilioli, Ugo, 1971- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., ©2007. |
| Description | x, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy. ^A512939 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007003616 |
| ISBN | 9780754660781 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754660788 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | B305.P84 Z55 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |