History Politics and Society question: How was socrates a sophist? Okay, well, my viewpoint is: the reason why one could argue that Socrates was a common...
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is named as the first Sophist; after him the most important is Gorgias of Leontini, Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis. Wherever they appeared, especially in Athens, they were received with enthusiasm and many flocked to hear them. Even such people as Pericles, Euripides, and Socrates sought their company.
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The first step in understanding Protagoras is to define the general category of "sophist," a term often applied to Protagoras in antiquity. In the fifth century, the term referred mainly to people who were known for their knowledge (e.g. Socrates, the seven sages) and those who earned money by teaching advanced pupils (e...
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The Athenians, with the exception of Plato, thought of Socrates as a Sophist, a designation he seems to have bitterly resented.
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www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/SOCRATES.HTM
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Plato, the most illustrious student of Socrates, depicts Socrates as refuting the sophists in several Dialogues. These texts depict the sophists in an...
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In his comedy, Clouds, Aristophanes portrays Socrates as a Sophist: aduplicitous charlatan eager to take peoples' money for teaching them to floutthe laws and defy moral norms. The term "sophist"" is derived from the Greek words sophosand sophia which are usually translated as "wise" and"wisdom".
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all criticized the sophists, Here is one surviving fragment written by Gorgias of Leontini, a sophist who lived in the latter half of the 5th century BCE, translated by Kathleen Freeman in Ancilla to the Pre-Socraticc Philosophers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962), pp. 128-29.
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1Socrates is commonly accepted as a turning point in Greek philosophy. As Cicero explains in his Tusculan Disputations: "Socrates was the first to summon he had been trained in music and political affairs by Sophists. He was associated with the great sophist Protagoras of Abdera and two important Presocratics:
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In the Euqufrwn (Euthyphro), for example, Socrates engaged in a sharply critical conversation with an over-confident young man. More significantly, Socrates generates a formal dilemma from a (deceptively) simple question: "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the...
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