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Protagoras est un penseur présocratique et professeur du Ve siècle av. J.-C. . Considéré par Platon comme un sophiste, il est reconnu comme tel par la tradition antique et récente. Renommé de son vivant, Protagoras est resté célèbre pour son agnosticisme avoué et un certain relativisme : « Des dieux, je ne sais ni s'ils sont ni s'ils ne sont pas » et « L'homme est la mesure de toutes choses »,,. Wikipedia  

✵ 486 av. J.-C. – 411 av. J.-C.
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“L’homme est la mesure de toutes choses, de l’être en tant qu’il est, du non-être en tant qu’il n’est pas.”

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“Quant aux dieux, je ne puis dire s’ils existent ou non; bien des raisons m’en empêchent, entre autres l’obscurité de la question et la brièveté de la vie humaine.”

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Diogène Laërce, Vies et doctrines des philosophes de l'antiquité

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“As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.”

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Opening lines of Concerning the Gods (DK 80 B4).
Variant translation: "As to the Gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, or if they do, what they are like."

“You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.”

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As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

“There are two sides to every question.”

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As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51

“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”

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As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a

“The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.”

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As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

“When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.”

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As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

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