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| Sophists: The sophists were a group of Greek philosophers in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. Sophists were not a unified group, and had a wide range of beliefs. They were generally skeptical of traditional values and beliefs, and emphasized the importance of individual thought. Representatives were Protagoras of Abdera, Gorgias of Leontini and Hippias of Elis. See also Sophism, Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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B. H. F. Taureck on Sophists - Dictionary of Arguments
I 8 Sophists/Taureck: contemporary meaning of Sophists is: "knowledgeable, experienced men". There was a turn to humans and to anthropological questions. Relationship of the human to the state. Before, being, cosmos and nature were in the foreground. I 9 The Sophists are linked to money and power struggles. "Whores of knowledge," in such a way the author lets Socrates speak. Sophists appeared as teachers of public speech. Time of the reign of the "30 tyrants": 404 - 403, Peloponnese war: 431 - 404. Resolutions of the people's assemblies were majority resolutions. >Art/Sophists, >Copula/Sophists, >Epistemology/Sophists, >Metaphysics/Sophists, >Morals/Sophists, >Nomos/Sophists, >Religious Belief/Sophists. Additional literature on the sophists: W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016. Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005. Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972. John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Taureck I B. H.F. Taureck Die Sophisten Hamburg 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27