What in the sophists teaching tends toward relativism

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1. Explain Protagoras' saying "Man is the measure of all things."

2. What in the Sophists' teaching tends toward relativism?

3. Contrast physis with nomos.

4. Contras conventional justice with natural justice. WHat two different concepts of natural justice can be distinguished?

5. How could the physis/nomos distinction be turned toward an antisocial direction?

6. Would a Sophist say that is more important to to be just or to appear just? Why?

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