The sophistic movement

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The sophistic movement

G.B. Kerferd

Cambridge University Press, 1981

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注記

Bibliography: p. 177-179

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Towards a history of interpretations of the sophistic movement
  • 3. The sophists as a social phenomenon
  • 4. The meaning of the term sophist
  • 5. The individual sophists
  • 6. Dialectic, antilogic and eristic
  • 7. The theory of language
  • 8. The doctrine of logos in literature and rhetoric
  • 9. Sophistic relativism
  • 10. The nomos-physis controversy
  • 11. Can virtue be taught?
  • 12. The theory of society
  • 13. Religion and the gods
  • 14. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA01550430
  • ISBN
    • 0521239362
    • 0521283574
  • LCCN
    80041934
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    vii, 184 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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