mancity2012_eamo
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His brother, ‘Pythagoras’ used to call him, the square on the hypotenuse.
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SkyBlueFlux
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To be honest, I am only fairly familiar with the 'Sophists' rather than Protagoras.
Was he as detestable as Shapiro?
Probably not, but the bar on that front is pretty high.
He was conservative in most of his views and fairly well known for touring round Athens teaching rich kids how to beat their opponents in debates against people not equipped with the tools to debate back effectively. In the same way Ben Shapiro never debates people who actually know how to debate.
In Plato’s dialogue he comes across as a bit of a weasel who tries to catch Socrates out but gets put back in his box because he has finally come across somebody who knows how to call him out.
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That’s likely exactly what he wants to happen.Of all the places...
They'll be lining up to shoot him there.
That’s all academic speculation. Very little Protagoras survives.Probably not, but the bar on that front is pretty high.
He was conservative in most of his views and fairly well known for touring round Athens teaching rich kids how to beat their opponents in debates against people not equipped with the tools to debate back effectively. In the same way Ben Shapiro never debates people who actually know how to debate.
In Plato’s dialogue he comes across as a bit of a weasel who tries to catch Socrates out but gets put back in his box because he has finally come across somebody who knows how to call him out.
SkyBlueFlux
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That’s all academic speculation. Very little Protagoras survives.
You’re correct of course, but I would argue the same is true for Socrates in terms of contemporary accounts. He didn’t write anything himself, and most of what was written about him was put to paper after his death. Plato is, ironically, one of the best sources we have on both.
A bit of academic speculation makes the day go by faster!
SkyBlueFlux
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Judge Chutkan in the election interference case has publicly released Smith’s 1889-page long appendix of evidence against Trump.
That’s a lot of pages that media outlets are no doubt sifting through as we speak. Also… coincidentally the year Hitler was born. Take from that what you will.
That’s a lot of pages that media outlets are no doubt sifting through as we speak. Also… coincidentally the year Hitler was born. Take from that what you will.
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Bloody hellHis brother, ‘Pythagoras’ used to call him, the square on the hypotenuse.
Manc in London
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You’re correct of course, but I would argue the same is true for Socrates in terms of contemporary accounts. He didn’t write anything himself, and most of what was written about him was put to paper after his death. Plato is, ironically, one of the best sources we have on both.
A bit of academic speculation makes the day go by faster!
There is also difficulty in establishing how much of that which Plato wrote was Socrates' work or just him using Socrates' name / character.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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Should make for interesting reading...Judge Chutkan in the election interference case has publicly released Smith’s 1889-page long appendix of evidence against Trump.
That’s a lot of pages that media outlets are no doubt sifting through as we speak. Also… coincidentally the year Hitler was born. Take from that what you will.