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Sophists, Socratics and Cynics (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
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Sophists, Socratics and Cynics (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important
characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language
as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned
to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations
than the facts of the physical world. The Sophists are too often
remembered merely as the opponents of Socrates and Plato. Rankin
discusses what social needs prompted the development of their
theories and provided a market for their teaching. Five prominent
Sophists - Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias and Thrasymachus
- are looked at individually. The author discusses their origins,
aims and arguments, and relates the issues they focussed on to
debates apparent in contemporary literature. Sophists, Socratics
and Cynics, first published in 1983, also traces the sophistic
strand in Greek thought beyond the great barrier of Plato,
emphasising continuity with the Cynics, and concludes with a look
forward to Epicureans and Stoics.
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