Crossword-Solution: PROTAGORAS
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| Greek Sophist philosopher | 1 answer |
| Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" | 1 answer |
| PLATO, work of | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PROTAGORAS (5)
There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence.
Thus the books of Protagoras were by the judges of Areopagus commanded to be burnt, and himself banished the territory for a discourse begun with his confessing not to know WHETHER THERE WERE GODS, OR WHETHER NOT.
For example, to represent God as false or immoral, or, according to Plato, as deluding men with appearances or as the author of evil; or again, to affirm with Protagoras that ‘knowledge is sensation,’ or that ‘being is becoming,’ or with Thrasymachus ‘that might is right,’ would have been regarded by Plato as a lie of this hateful sort.
Mythology supplies a figure under which the lesson may be taught (as Protagoras says, ‘the myth is more interesting’), and also enables Plato to touch lightly on new principles without going into details.
The poets, as he says in the Protagoras, were the Sophists of their day; and his dislike of the one class is reflected on the other.
Quotes with PROTAGORAS (1)
It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite. Always has been so! Look at Socrates, in Plato, and his bunch round him! The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits... Protagoras, or whoever it was! And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray! I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples l…
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2007–2016).