Note: this assignment is for students in Group II only.
Please respond to the following in
two pages or less (double spaced). (Needless to say this should be
your own original work.)
In the addition (Zusatz) to §107 (p. 170),
Hegel apparently alludes to a dispute between Protagoras and Plato
about whether the human being or God is ``the measure of all things,''
and takes Plato's side (see, in our translation, n. 35, p. 327). Based
on the analogy between being-for-self as the unity of being and
being-there (Dasein) and measure as the unity of quality
and quantity, explain in what sense Hegel would say that Protagoras,
too, was correct. See especially the second paragraph of the Zusatz to §96 (p. 153), which I discussed in class last
week. What, on the other hand, would be Protagoras's mistake,
according to this argument?