Protagoras
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#Protagoras
Protagoras · c. 490–420 BCE
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“Twenty-five centuries before anyone said "post-truth," Protagoras asked the question we still can't put down: if every side of an argument feels true to somebody, what is truth?”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Truth is not handed down from the cosmos or the gods; it is measured against human experience — so persuasion, law, and politics are where the real philosophical action is.”
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