PROTÁGORAS JAKO TEORETIK SPOLEČENSKÉ SMLOUVY

• Authors: Myšička Stanislav

Title variants

EN

Protagoras and his theory of social contract

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In his theory of society Protagoras, one of the most influential sophist thinkers, applies a contractarian approach, similar in many respects to those of Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau. Protagoras, unlike Aristotle or Plato, was convinced that individual perceptions and beliefs as well as those of the body political are relative, because there is no uniform ground on which things could be perceived or experienced. He offers an evolutionary account of the development of human species, arguing that society is a result of a contract among its members, based on commonly shared and taught social virtues. On the other hand, Protagoras is not a nihilist: In his account there is still a possibility of an expertise within the polis, related to the good of the particular community.

Keywords

EN

PLATO; PROTAGORAS; SOCIAL CONTRACT; SOPHISTS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 258-272
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Myšička Stanislav

• Mgr. Stanislav Mysicka, Katedra politologie a evropskych studii FF UP, Krizkovskeho 12, 771 80 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09637