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Sophism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sophism can mean two very different things: In the modern definition, a sophism is a confusing or illogical argument used for deceiving someone. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a group of teac...
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Rhetoric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Socrates himself had long been accused of being a sophist (a designation he bitterly resented), as his thoughts were very similar to those of a sophist. ... (881 Words -- Approx. 4 Pages)
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According to Plato (a student of Socrates), Socrates was accused of being a Sophist at his trial. This may have affected Plato's subsequent antagonistic view of the Sophists.
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. A movement of itinerant professional lecturers on many topics, including philosophical ones, who flourished in Greece, mainly in the last half of the fifth century BC. They differed widely in outlook, though many shared a tendency to scepticism. ... Sophist : Adult and Continuing Education; 31 words, approx. 1 pages;
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One of the reasons why Socrates was arrested was because he was being accused of corrupting the minds of the students he taught. I personally feel that it is almost impossible for one person to corrupt the thoughts and feelings of a whole group ... Thirdly, because Socrates practiced making weak arguments strong (Sophist).
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But how can ethics be thought of as being calculative? In another dialogue, Euthyphro, Socrates precisely expresses the benefits of the art of calculation in opposition to ethics, where one cannot come into agreement about anything, because there is no standard unit of measurement:
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