Yet I think it afine thing to be able to teach people as Gorgias of Leontini does, and Prodicus ofCeos, and Hippias of Elis.2
- [Editors:] These were all well-known Sophists. For Gorgias and Hippias see Plato’s dialogues named after them; both Hippias and Prodicus appear in Protagoras.
The editors call out these philosophers/teachers as Sophists. Compare where they appear in Protagoras.
we are partofthe worldin its ongoing intra-activity
This brings to mind Protagoras's human-measure doctrine. The only way to know the world is through the lens of our humanity; we are inherently part of the world and are literally unable to remove ourselves from it in order to see it any other way.
humanist ideal of ‘Man’ as the allegedly universal measureof all things,
Protagoras's human-measure doctrine strikes again. (Cf. end of Barad article)
His method is lo treat man as the measure of all things,
Little Protagoras action