 The emphasis on the political dimension can be paralleled with the so-called Protagoras’ “Apology” in the Theaetetus—the problem of the compatibility between this dialogue and the Protagoras is one of the most urgent problems in Protagoras’ scholarship. In the myth, it is only stated that human beings, insofar as they are human beings, have a predisposition towards justice (dike). In the “Apology” (and partly in the second part of Protagoras’ speech in the Protagoras), there are not only individual decisions at stake but also collective ones. In the latter case the discussion is about the law (nomos), which depends on human decisions and can be modified according to the circumstances 