Protagoras · Philosophy
Protagoras was the first professional sophist - a paid teacher who promised to make young men <em>better</em>: more excellent in managing their households and their city. He taught rhetoric, the art of argument on both sides, and the skill of ‘making the weaker argument the stronger,’ claims that made him admired and feared in equal measure.
You learned that Protagoras was the first to call himself a sophist and to charge fees for teaching practical excellence ( aretē ) - the skill of managing one’s household and city well, especially through rhetoric and persuasion. He claimed to teach virtue, to argue both sides of any question, and even to ‘make…
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