What Do YOU Think is Meant By "Man is the Measure of All Things"?

Question

I just want to know what you opinion is. So lend to me your views! ^.^

...please?

Answer 1

probably that all other living things are compared to man's ability..........(man meaning human beings if that's what you are asking).

Answer 2

Over these centuries hundreds of people express their views on many issues on life and living. Some make deep impressions and some leave us wondering what that means! This is also one such. Each one of us can interpret in our own way.

To me it would look that the author of this statement meant that human`s reaction to the world around him..... inanimate to animate things....... tells about the very nature of those . Man`s awe of the creator`s handwork, from the mountains to the depth of the ocean leaves human wondering .

Answer 3

When we hear the word man, let it known that M.A.N. is an acronym for Mem Aleph Nun, or Mother, Father, Child. Our collective experience and perspective is what molds our reality, therefore man is the measure of all things. We create our own limitations, but we also create the means to shatter our boundaries. We only gain as much out of over selves as we expect to get.

Answer 4

Can any other creature we know of evaluate or have intelligent ideas about life in general?

This occurs in man, this ability to measure. Other living things have their own beauty, but not the consciousness to 'look at the looking', like man does.

Answer 5

Most people agree that Protagoras meant to say that we are the ultimate source of value. That we give things the qualities they have... For example, the world is simply a planet. With no humans on it, who would say it was good? A god?

My opinion would be that he is right, and dare I say, he meant more:

There is no absolute values to things. Life is neither good nor bad, we must experience it to value it as we wish. Therefore, his statement goes against the idea of absolute morals; for one man may see life to be good, based on his or her experience, whereas another may see it to be bad according to that person's empirical experience.

Answer 6

Our perception and belief is our reality. Every false scientific belief IS truth, until proven otherwise. It is similar to Quantum?? psychology. Nothing exists until the human mind can concieve it, store it in episodic and semantic memory and share the perseption. Things that we now believe are truth, may one day prove to be false, but the truth is not altered until the human perception has been altered. You may argue that it has always been true but our perception was wrong, and you would be correct, but you would be unable dispute that truth until its falsehood could be concieved. Someone's beliefs may not be truth, but it is THEIR truth.

Answer 7

It is usually interpreted to mean that the individual human being, rather than a god or an unchanging moral law, is the ultimate source of value.

Answer 8

I believe this phrase means "Humanity is the measure of all things"
By the achievements of humanity are all things measured/judged.

Not by humanities sex, male or female...

Answer 9

People place the values on all things. Size, worth, desire, like and dislike, and so on. Kinda like "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

This is just my humble and brief opinion.

Answer 10

seems to contradict himself, truth varies from one person to another. for instance if X feels cold, doesn't mean A feels to. So the truth is an ambiguity term.

Answer 11

I think it means that all men (read people) value (or measure) everything and scale its meaning in relation to themselves.