Wpływ filozofii Protagorasa na myśl Platona
The Influence of Philosophy of Protagoras on the Thought of Plato

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns a widely ignored influence of Protagoras on Plato. My objectiveis to show that generally speaking there would be no Plato’s philosophy if it was not forthe thought of Protagoras. The philosopher from Abdera influenced Plato on many levels.I started off with pointing out that Protagoras “gave” young Plato directions towards hiscrystallised philosophy. Consequently, I argue that Plato created his world of infinitelyexisting ideas in opposition to Protagoras’s epistemology. Moreover, in order to prove thatsophists are not philosophers, later on Plato abandoned his so-called middle philosophy andonce again changed his views, forming his late philosophy of five principles.

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