biography
pronunciation:
[prohtagoras]
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| lived:
| (c.490–421 BC)
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| biography:
| The earliest self-proclaimed Greek Sophist, born in Abdera, Greece. He taught mainly in Athens, presenting a system of practical wisdom fitted to train people for citizen's duties, and based on the doctrine that ‘man is the measure of all things’. His doctrine that all beliefs are true was examined in great detail and rejected by Plato. All his works are lost except a fragment of his treatise On the Gods. |
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