Lexicon of Arguments

 

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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.
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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.