This is what the saying " Homo omnium rerum mesura est" (“ Man is the measure of all things”) summarizes. This saying expresses the change in the study object for the Greek rationalism: Now, without leaving the interest about the natural phenomena, the center is the man and all his complexity. Although this view may is too brief and topical, it’s worthy to remember how they went from a religious-mythical first stage in which the center of thought used the relationship with the gods as an explanation to things, to the philosophical phase as a way to explain the physical nature and its phenomena and finally to the anthropocentric stage concerned to the man himself. This sentence completes the philosophical rationalization process that took place in the ancient Greece. This is the most famous saying of the sophist and rhetorician Greek philosopher Protagoras, born in Abdera, in Thrace, (485 B.C.-411.B.C. The Greek philosophers were concerned to explain the nature of things and also tried to explain human own nature.
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