9780521283571-0521283574-The Sophistic Movement

The Sophistic Movement

ISBN-13: 9780521283571
ISBN-10: 0521283574
Edition: First Edition
Author: G. B. Kerferd
Publication date: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 196 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521283571
ISBN-10: 0521283574
Edition: First Edition
Author: G. B. Kerferd
Publication date: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 196 pages

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The Sophistic Movement (ISBN-13: 9780521283571 and ISBN-10: 0521283574), written by authors G. B. Kerferd, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1981. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Greek & Roman (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Sophistic Movement (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Greek & Roman books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.44.

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This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.

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