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A sophist (Greek: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics and mathematics. They taught arete, "virtue" or "excellence", predominantly to young statesmen and nobility.
Argues that Antiphon the Sophist and Antiphon of Rhamnus are two, and provides a new edition of and commentary on the fragments attributed to the Sophist. David Hoffman, "Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law and Justice in the Age of the Sophists/Antiphon the Sophist: The Fragments", Rhetoric Society Quarterly, summer 2006. A review of Gagarin ...
The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista [1]) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stranger employ the method of division in order to classify and define the sophist and describe his essential attributes and differentia vis a vis the philosopher and statesman.
Protagoras (/ p r oʊ ˈ t æ ɡ ər ə s,-æ s / proh-TAG-ər-əs, -ass; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC) [1] was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.
There are separate but relatively rare occasions where Isocrates lists his own positive exposition of his philosophy. In arguing against the rigid form which some sophists apply to the art of oration, Isocrates states that, "oratory is only good if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of ...
Bruce McComiskey has argued that Gorgias may have been uncharacteristically portrayed by Plato, because "… Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion" (82). [5] This is inaccurate because, "for Gorgias the sophist, all 'knowledge' is opinion.
Gorgias (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr dʒ i ə s / GOR-jee-əs; [1] Ancient Greek: Γοργίας; c. 483 BC – c. 375 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily.
Protagoras (/ p r oʊ ˈ t æ ɡ ə r ə s,-æ s / proh-TAG-ər-əs, -ass; Ancient Greek: Πρωταγόρας) is a dialogue by Plato.The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists".