Sophists

This translated volume presents a new vision of the Sophists. It assesses specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon, and how they shifted the focus of ancient philosophy from the cosmos to man through their questioning of the nature of knowledge and language and the grounds of morality and politics.

List of contents

Foreword Mauro Bonazzi; 1. The Sophists: history of a name and prejudice; 2. Being and truth, humanity and reality; 3. A world of words: the Sophists at the crossroads between grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and philosophy; 4. Justice and law; 5. Teaching virtue: the Sophists between happiness and success; 6. The gods and religion; Appendix 1. The protagonists; Appendix 2. The Sophists and specialist forms of knowledge (Technai); Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Mauro Bonazzi, Mauro (Universiteit Utrecht Bonazzi, Bonazzi Mauro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108706216
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70621-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: New Surveys in the Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500