This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.
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Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Dissoi Logoi, Plato's Protagoras, Plato's Republic, New York, Platonic Forms, Hellenic Studies, Ancient Greek, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Plato's Gorgias, Sophistici Elenchi, Zeno the Eleatic New!
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Plato's hostility to the sophists is obvious and has always been recognised. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Dissoi Logoi, Plato's Protagoras, Plato's Republic, New York, Platonic Forms, Hellenic Studies, Ancient Greek, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Plato's Gorgias, Sophistici Elenchi, Zeno the Eleatic New!
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- A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans by W. K. C. Guthrie on 6 pages
- A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 4, Plato: The Man and his Dialogues: Earlier Period (Plato - The Man & His Dialogues - Earlier Period) by W. K. C. Guthrie on 6 pages
- The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) by E. R. Dodds on page 22, page 51, and Back Matter
- The Older Sophists by Rosamond Kent Sprague on page 53, and Back Matter
- The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics by Eric Alfred Havelock on page 34, and page 116
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- Philo and Paul Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement by Bruce W. Winter on 8 pages
- Socrates and His Contemporaries by Terence H. Irwin on 8 pages
- Early Socratic Dialogues (Penguin Classics) by Plato on 6 pages
- Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources by Michelle Ballif on 4 pages
- A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity by Janet Coleman on 4 pages
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