Exam 3: The Sophist: Protagoras

The Greek word for wise led to the term "sophos."

According to William G. McAdoo, who is it impossible to defeat in argument?

Do you believe that people should be required to pay for their education, or should education be free to all who can benefit? Argue for your view.

​Plato named a dialogue after Protagoras.

Do you believe that the Sophists played a useful role or not? Explain your answer. Do you think that they are any modern equivalents of the Sophists in contemporary society? Do they play a useful role or not? Do your answers to these questions differ and if so, why?

​Do you believe that morality is relative or not? You should explain precisely what your view is and then argue for it.

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The Ethiopians say that their gods are blue-eyed with red hair.

​A cultural relativist holds that values reflect a divine order.

​ The sophists taught that truth is a matter of appearance.

​ The Sophists threatened the elite of Athens.

"Ethnocentrism" is from Greek roots meaning "the race at the center."

​We get the word "sophisticated" from the period of the Sophists.

​ The Sophists taught that power was the ultimate value.

The ethnocentric person believes that he or she does not have an accent.

​The Sophists believed that power was subservient to the truth.

Athens was a democratic state.

​Who believed that all opinions were true?

Who was perhaps the greatest Sophist?

​According to Jules Henry, what did the ancients of our culture seek?