Relativism

The teachings were essentially about practical matters, arguing to win a civil case. Rather than to prove a point, every argument has 2 sides and both may be equally valid. " Make the worst case the better", proving not the worth of the argument, but the persuasiveness of its proponent. Believe it's subjective and it is the man holding the view or opinion that is the measure of its worth. By placing human beings at its center, it continued a tradition of taking religion out of philosophical argument, and it also shifted the focus of philosophy away from an understanding of the nature of the universe to an examination of human behavior. The main implication of" man is the measure of all things" is that belief is subjective and relative. This leads to reject the existence of absolute definition of truth, justice or virtue. What is true for one person may be false for another. This relativism also applies to moral values, such as what is right and what is wrong? Nothing is inherently good in itself. Something is ethical, or right only because a person or society judges it to be so. Protagoras was the most influential of a group of itinerant teachers of law and rhetoric that became known as the sophists. With protagras, there was a significant step in ethics towards the view that there are no absolutes. And that all judgments, including moral judgments, are subjective.