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The Sophistic Movement

The Sophistic Movement
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 0521283574
ISBN-13 : 9780521283571
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Book Synopsis The Sophistic Movement by : G. B. Kerferd

Download or read book The Sophistic Movement written by G. B. Kerferd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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