- Sophist - Wikipedia
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
- The Sophists - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Greek word sophistēs, formed from the noun sophia, ‘wisdom’ or ‘learning’, has the general sense ‘one who exercises wisdom or learning’
- Ancient Greek Philosophy, Rhetoric Argumentation - Britannica
Sophist, any of certain Greek lecturers, writers, and teachers in the 5th and 4th centuries bce, most of whom traveled about the Greek-speaking world giving instruction in a wide range of subjects in return for fees The term sophist (Greek sophistes) had earlier applications
- Sophists - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The sophists were itinerant professional teachers and intellectuals who frequented Athens and other Greek cities in the second half of the fifth century B C E In return for a fee, the sophists offered young wealthy Greek men an education in aretē (virtue or excellence), thereby attaining wealth and fame while also arousing significant antipathy
- The Sophists - Encyclopedia. com
In Athens, Socrates was a pivotal figure, so much so that the natural philosophers, from Thales to Democritus, are lumped together under the label, "Presocratics " Yet the way for Socrates was prepared by a group of thinkers and teachers called Sophists
- Sophists - New World Encyclopedia
Sophists traveled and witnessed diverse views of god and customs, and developed relativistic or antagonistic views for religious faith, morality, and values They presented a skeptical or critical or antagonistic view to the existence of an absolute, permanent, and objective standard of truth
- THE SOPHISTS - PhilosophyStudent. org
The Sophists were not a single school but a professional grouping of largely itinerant teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and legal argumentation
- Sophists | Who were, history, characteristics, representatives, works
The sophists were great thinkers who developed all their activity in the city of Athens during the 5th century Philosophers dedicated to sophist thought elaborated different theories to explain the cosmos
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