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The Sophistic Movement
Taschenbuch von George Briscoe Kerferd
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780521283571
ISBN-10: 0521283574
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kerferd, George Briscoe
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: George Briscoe Kerferd
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1981
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 101152606
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780521283571
ISBN-10: 0521283574
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kerferd, George Briscoe
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: George Briscoe Kerferd
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1981
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 101152606
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