It is in this context that we encounter
Protagoras, whose relativism denies that there is anything one in itself beyond the particulars.
The topics include
Protagoras' cooperative know-how, democracy without elections: popular rule according to Alfarabi, consent and popular sovereignty in medieval political thought: Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis, Thomas Paine and democratic contempt, morals and enlightenment: Bolivar's virtuous democracy in the Angustura Address, democracy in the revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg, an alternative democracy: dissent in Gandhi's great trial of 1922, and a new reading on authority and guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin.
Socrates was pointing fingers at the likes of Glaucon son of Ariston,
Protagoras the Greek philosopher and Thrasymachus.
Sophistry and Political Philosophy:
Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates, by Robert C.
Other sentences are drawn from the works of
Protagoras, Aristotle and Kierkegaard to round out this quick tour.