Sophist - Wikipedia Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics and mathematics They taught arete, "virtue" or "excellence", predominantly to young statesmen and nobility
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Rhetoric Argumentation - Britannica Sophist, any of certain Greek lecturers, writers, and teachers in the 5th and 4th centuries bce, most of whom traveled about the Greek-speaking world giving instruction in a wide range of subjects in return for fees The term sophist (Greek sophistes) had earlier applications
The Sophists - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The sophists made important contributions to many areas of early Greek philosophy, including ethics, political and social philosophy, anthropology, logic and dialectic, mathematics, the study of language and grammar, literary criticism, rhetoric, the study of the gods and the origins of religion
Sophists | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Due in large part to the influence of Plato and Aristotle, the term sophistry has come to signify the deliberate use of fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness
Sophists - New World Encyclopedia Sophists traveled and witnessed diverse views of god and customs, and developed relativistic or antagonistic views for religious faith, morality, and values They presented a skeptical or critical or antagonistic view to the existence of an absolute, permanent, and objective standard of truth
The Sophists: Teachers of wisdom and controversial figures of classical . . . The Sophists traveled widely, teaching in various Greek cities and attracting students from diverse backgrounds Their teachings were eclectic, encompassing subjects such as grammar, logic, ethics, political theory, and natural philosophy
Sophist - Rhetoric, Argumentation, Education | Britannica To Hegel, the Sophists were subjective idealists, holding that reality is only minds and their contents, and so philosophy could move forward by turning its attention to the subjective element in knowing
Deipnosophistae - Wikipedia The Deipnosophistae (Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit 'The Dinner Sophists', where sophists may be translated more loosely as 'sages, philosophers, experts') is a work written c 200 AD in Ancient Greek by Athenaeus of Naucratis