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- Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:24 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: What happened to all the sophists?
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What happened to all the sophists?
Due to Plato, "sophist" has a negative connotation. Yet taking it in its fullest sense of instructors of the youth for public life, fifth century Athens was teaming with sophists: Protagoras of Abdera Gorgias of Leontini Antiphon Prodicus of Ceos Cratylus Hippias of Elis Alcidamas (who iro...