A metamorphose of "It" and describing itself to be "himself":
While myself as a Protagoras (in Greek: Πρωταγόρας) (ca. 490– 420 BC), I was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophist by Plato. In his dialogue "Protagoras", Plato credits me with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue.
I was born in Abdera, Thrace, in Ancient Greece. "In Plato's Protagoras, before the company of Socrates, Prodicus, and Hippias, he states that I am old enough to be the father of any of them. This suggests a date of not later than 490 B.C."
I died at about the age of seventy after forty years as a practicing Sophist. My death, then, may be assumed to have occurred circa 420.
"I was well-known in Athens and became a friend of Pericles. Plutarch relates a story in which the two spend a whole day discussing an interesting point of legal responsibility, that probably involved a more philosophical question of causation".
"In an athletic contest a man had been accidentally hit and killed with a javelin. Was my death to be attributed to the javelin itself, to the man who threw it, or to the authorities responsible for the conduct of the games?" I was not sure.
I, Protagoras was also renowned as a teacher who addressed subjects connected to virtue and political life. I was especially involved in the question of whether virtue could be taught, a commonplace issue of 5th Century B.C. Greece (and related to modern readers through Plato's dialogue). Rather than educators who offered specific, practical training in rhetoric and public speaking, I also attempted to formulate a reasoned understanding, on a very general level, of a wide range of human phenomena (for example, language and education). I then, seems to have had an interest in orthoepeia, or the correct use of words (a topic more strongly associated with his fellow-sophist Prodicus).My most famous saying is: "Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not". (Like many fragments of the Presocratics, this phrase has been passed down to us without any context, and its meaning is open to interpretation).
I was also a famous proponent of agnosticism. In my lost work, On the Gods, I wrote: "Concerning the Gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life" (80 before DK).
Very few fragments from me have survived, though I was known to have written several different works: Antilogiae and Truth. The latter is cited by Plato, and was known alternatively as 'The Throws' (a wrestling term referring to the attempt to floor an opponent). It began with the "man the measure" pronouncement. They gave my name for their honour "The Protagoras crater on the Moon".
Even though I was a contemporary of Socrates, the philosopher of Abdera is considered a presocratic thinker. I followed the Ionian tradition that distinguishes the School of Abdera. The distinctive note of this tradition is criticism, a systematic discussion that can be identified as "presocratic dialectic", an alternative to the Aristotelian demonstrative method which has the fault of being dogmatic. The main contribution of me was perhaps my method of finding a better argument by discarding the less viable one. This is known as "Antilogies", and consists of two premises; the first is "Before any uncertainty two opposite theses can validly be confronted", the second is its complement: the need to "strengthen the weaker argument".
I knew that the less appealing argument could hide the best answer, which is why I stated that it was constantly necessary to strengthen the weakest argument. Having been born before Socrates himself, this progressive viewpoint in the development of consensual truth could conceivably have contributed to the progressive styles of many of the other great minds which followed me.
*Why I have to be or not to be a Protagoras? Do I love him to much so I become him then? The incarnation, what is the meaning of these....
I must digging the whole...
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