Protagoras

=Protagoras=

toc Read here pertinent facts about someone whose work is critical to a proper comprehension of scale.

=Overview= Protagoras is an ancient Greek root of the essential anthropomorphic tendency behind our consideration of scale.

=Man is the Measure= Protagoras (ca. 490 BC – 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. Protagoras created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that man is the measure of all things (man being the non-gender-specific Greek anthropos).

Man is the measure of all things: of things that are, that they are; of things that are not, that they are not. This idea was very revolutionary for the time and contrasting to other philosophical doctrines that claimed the universe was based on something objective, outside the human influence.

Eames quoted it as, “of all things man is the measure” (Powers of Ten, 10^0).

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