ellauri096.html on line 773: The problem of weakness of will goes back at least as far as Plato. In Plato´s Protagoras Socrates asks precisely how it is possible that, if one judges action A to be the best course of action, one would do anything other than A?
ellauri096.html on line 775: In the dialogue Protagoras, Socrates attests that akrasia does not exist, claiming "No one goes willingly toward the bad" (358d). If a person examines a situation and decides to act in the way he determines to be best, he will pursue this action, as the best course is also the good course, i.e. man's natural goal. An all-things-considered assessment of the situation will bring full knowledge of a decision's outcome and worth linked to well-developed principles of the good. A person, according to Socrates, never chooses to act poorly or against his better judgment; and, therefore, actions that go against what is best are simply a product of being ignorant of facts or knowledge of what is best or good.
ellauri183.html on line 56: Earlier thinkers, however, were Sanjaya Belatthaputta, a 5th-century BCE Indian philosopher who expressed agnosticism about any afterlife, and Protagoras, a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher who expressed agnosticism about the existence of the gods.
ellauri223.html on line 139: Henk.koht. olen sitä mieltä että sekä hyvä että paha ovat vain kunkin elukan henk. koht. kannanottoja. Eli kannustan tällästä eettisen relativismin radikaalimpaa versiota, suum quique. Omne animal sua ipsa mensura boni et mali. En kuitenkaan ulota tätä faktoihin, toisinkuin Protagoras, vaan kyse on mielipiteistä. Faktat viis välittävät elukoiden mielipiteistä. Kemia ei tunne likaa, ja naturalia non sunt turpia.
ellauri223.html on line 141: Homo mensura est appellatio doctrinae, quam Protagoras prima sententia libri sui de veritate (Ἀλήθεια) scripti exposuit. Primum testimonium huius sententiae apud Platonem invenitur, sed quia enuntiato infinitivo constracta est, oratio recta apud Sextum Empiricum et Diogenem Laertium servata saepe citari solet:
ellauri223.html on line 146: Doctrina Protagorea aliquo modo ad relativismum epistemologicum referri videtur: qualem quilibet quamlibet rem perceperit, talis ei videbitur. At si nemo umquam erraret, omnes homines aeque sapientes essent. Constat quidem neminem erroris purum esse. Difficilius est hoc negare, suam cuique experientiam sensibus acceptam veram esse. Scientia non tamen ad sensuum experientiam pertinet sed in rationis conclusione ad hanc experientiam pertinenti posita est. Protagoras experientiam et scientiam confundere videtur.
ellauri285.html on line 137: Maria pushaa ilmeisesti perspectivismiä, erästä idealismin fleivöriä. Se on oikea alternatiivisten totuuxien filosofia, Protagoraan homomensuura. Perspektivismin varhaiset muodot on tunnistettu Protagorasin (sic), Michel de Montaignen ja Gottfried Leibnizin filosofioissa. José Ortega y Gasset ja Karl Jaspers käsittelivät perspektivismiä erikseen 1900-luvulla.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 794: Brod’s memoirs spoke about Kafka’s gentle serenity, describing their relationship almost as if they were lovers. He also recalled the mystical experience of both men reading Plato’s Protagoras in Greek, and Flaubert’s Sentimental Education in French, like a collision of souls. While there is no evidence of any homosexual feeling between Kafka and Brod, their intimate relationship appeared to go beyond typical camaraderie from two straight men of their era.
xxx/ellauri259.html on line 187: Jyväskylän yliopistossa työskentelevän tutkijatohtori Jarno Hietalahden analyyttinen, intohimoinen ja kantaaottava teos Ihmisyyden ytimessä osoittaa, että humanismista todellakin kannattaa kirjoittaa. Hietalahti kirjoitti muutama vuosi sitten Huumorin ja naurun filosofia -teoksen. Nyt hänen raikas ja railakaskin teoksensa esittelee filosofisen humanismin perusajatuksia sellaisilta ajattelijoilta kuin Protagoras, Erasmus Rotterdamilainen, Niccoló Macchiavelli, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Erich Fromm, Georg Henrik von Wright ja Jacques Derrida.
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