Sophists

Name: Sophists
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ISBN: 9780521096669

ISBN-10: 0521096669

ISBN-13: 9780521096669

Edition: 1971

Authors: W. K. C. Guthrie

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The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of…

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List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 1971
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of abbreviations


Preface



Introduction



Topics of the day



What is a sophist?



The 'Nomos' - 'Physis' antithesis in morals and politics



The social compact



Equality



The relativity of values and its effects on ethical theory



Rhetoric and philosophy



Rationalist theories of religion: agnosticism and atheism



Can virtue be taught?



The men


Bibliography


Index of passages quoted or referred to


General index


Index of selected Greek words