All 27 Uses of
sophistry
in
Sophie's World
- But before we meet Socrates, let us hear a little about the so-called Sophists, who dominated the Athenian scene at the time of Socrates.†
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- They called themselves Sophists.†
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- The word "sophist" means a wise and informed person.†
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- In Athens, the Sophists made a living out of teaching the citizens for money.†
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- The Sophists had one characteristic in common with the natural philosophers: they were critical of the traditional mythology.†
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- But at the same time the Sophists rejected what they regarded as fruitless philosophical speculation.†
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- The Sophists chose to concern themselves with man and his place in society.†
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- "Man is the measure of all things," said the Sophist Protagoras (c.†
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- The Sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government.†
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- This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced.†
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- As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was right or wrong.†
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- Socrates lived at the same time as the Sophists.†
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- But Socrates differed from the Sophists in one significant way.†
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- He did not consider himself to be a "sophist"—that is, a learned or wise person.†
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- Unlike the Sophists, he did not teach for money.†
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- Because it is central to the rest of this course that you fully understand the difference between a sophist and a philosopher.†
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- The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.†
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- The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.†
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- You have probably come across a few of these sophists in your young life.†
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- Unlike the Sophists, he believed that the ability to distinguish between right and wrong lies in people's reason and not in society.†
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- We've seen how the Sophists and Socrates turned their attention from questions of natural philosophy to problems related to man and society.†
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- And yet in one sense, even Socrates and the Sophists were preoccupied with the relationship between the eternal and immutable, and the "flowing."†
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- Very briefly, the Sophists thought that perceptions of what was right or wrong varied from one city-state to another, and from one generation to the next.†
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- One could say that the Sophists had a point here.†
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- In this, then, the Stoics sided with Socrates against the Sophists.†
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- We can again draw a parallel with Socrates, who did not accept the skepticism of the Sophists.†
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- Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Chpt 21 *sophistry = the use of seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
Definition:
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(sophistry) seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning