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100 _aBacon, Francis
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245 _aMind, body, and arterial intelligence
260 _aUniversity News
300 _a62(17), Apr 22-28, 2024: p.3-11
520 _aProtagoras’s doctrine is that “man is the measure of all things, of things, that are, that they are, and of things that are nothing they are not”. It is evident that external objects, by affecting our senses, cause in our minds several ideas which were not there before. Protagoras argued that all knowledge is relative to the observer—what exists for one person may not exist for another. This perspective challenges the idea of universal truths, asserting that reality is constructed through human experience. Protagoras' ideas resonate in contemporary debates on subjectivity, ethics, and knowledge. His doctrine influences discussions on cultural relativism, where moral values are seen as context-dependent rather than universally fixed. – Reproduced
650 _aProtagoras, Relativism, Truth Perception, Subjective Reality, Epistemology, Empiricism, Human Experience, Knowledge Construction, Plato’s Critique, Theaetetus, Objective Truth, Cultural Relativism, Ethical Subjectivity, Philosophy
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