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Author Lee, Mi-Kyoung

Title Epistemology after Protagoras : responses to relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus / Mi-Kyoung Lee
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 291 pages)
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Protagoras' Aletheia -- Protagoras and relativism -- Self-refutation and contradiction -- The secret doctrine in Plato's Theaetetus -- Aristotle on Protagoras and the Theaetetus -- Aristotle on Protagoras and early conceptions of thinking and perceiving -- Democritus on appearances and perception: the early sources -- Democritus on knowledge and the senses: the late sources -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Relativism was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Protagoras is famous for his claim that 'man is the measure of all things'. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines this and the work of Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Protagoras. Aletheia.
Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 4. 5.
Democritus
SUBJECT Aletheia (Protagoras) fast
Metaphysics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Relativity -- History
Relativity
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199262225
9780199262229
9780191602924
0191602922