The Sophistic Movement
Recommended by Angela Hobbs, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #70 in Athens
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... more
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Angela Hobbs This book really put the sophists on the map as serious and interesting thinkers, and not just as specious fraudsters. (Source)
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