Sophistic Movement

Name: Sophistic Movement
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ISBN: 9780521283571

ISBN-10: 0521283574

ISBN-13: 9780521283571

Edition: 1981

Authors: G. B. Kerferd

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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,…

Book details

List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/3/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.54" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Towards a history of interpretations of the sophistic movement



The sophists as a social phenomenon



The meaning of the term sophist



The individual sophists



Dialectic, antilogic and eristic



The theory of language



The doctrine of logos in literature and rhetoric



Sophistic relativism



The nomos--physis controversy



Can virtue be taught?



The theory of society



Religion and the gods



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index