160b: "yet we are tied neither to any other thing in the world nor to our respective selves". Is he saying that Socrates at T1 is not tied, in any respect, to Socrates at T2? I take the point he has been making earlier that, for example, in a strict sense, Socrates-ill and Socrates-well are two different people. But can they not be related in any way on this picture?
160b-c: Explicitly introducing the relativism inherent in the view.
161c-d: Animals are percipient. Things appear to animals in certain ways. Thus, the things are those ways for the animals. Thus, no man is a better judge than a tadpole. This seems to be the first counterargument against the view.
161d: "only the individual himself can judge of his own world". Is Socrates saying that people live in their own private worlds if Protagoras is correct?
161e-162a: "To examine and try to refute each other's appearances and judgments, when each person's are correct--this is surely an extremely tiresome piece of nonsense". I had an undergraduate professor who said this (quoted it, that is, as I learned a little later) to a student who was pressing relativism about truth. I have always liked it.
162b: Again, we have Socrates stating that good people should want to show off when he tells Theodorus that if he went to visit Spartan wrestling-schools, he should get naked and "take your turn of letting people see what you look like". It was their minds a couple days ago, and now it is their bodies. Theodorus, champion of modesty, is wonderful in his response.
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