Bibliograph

Epistemology after Protagoras, responses to relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, Mi-Kyoung Lee

Type

Label

Epistemology after Protagoras, responses to relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus, Mi-Kyoung Lee

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Epistemology after Protagoras

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

63294934

Responsibility statement

Mi-Kyoung Lee

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

responses to relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus

Summary

Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras in the 5th century BC. Lee examines this challenge to the possibility of knowledge and truth, and how Plato, Aristotle and Democritus responded to it

Target audience

specialized

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