Protagoras · Philosophy
Protagoras opened his book <em>On the Gods</em> with a famous declaration of agnosticism: ‘Concerning the gods, I cannot know whether they exist or not, nor of what form they are; many things prevent this knowledge - the obscurity of the matter and the shortness of human life.’ It is the first reasoned statement of agnosticism in the Western tradition.
You learned that Protagoras’ book On the Gods began: ‘Concerning the gods, I cannot know whether they exist or not, nor what they are like in form; for many things prevent knowledge - the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of human life.’ This is agnosticism (the question is beyond human knowledge)…
Leads to Democritus.
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