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Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
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The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world.
The Sophists are too often remembered merely as the opponents of Socrates and Plato. Rankin... Read more
List of Abbreviations; Preface 1. The Sophistic Movement: Beginnings and Identity 2. Five Prominent Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus 3. Less Prominent Sophists 4. Nature Versus Law, Relativism and the Origins of Society 5. First Philosophies? 6. Thucydides: Sophistic Method and Historical Research 7. Sophistry and Tragedy 8. Atheism 9. Socrates 10. Plato 11. The Socratics 12. Antisthenes 13. Diogenes and the Cynics 14. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Rankin, David
