The Sophists
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- Author: Mauro Bonazzi, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Date Published: April 2021
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108706216
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From Socrates and Plato onwards, the Sophists were often targeted by the authoritative philosophical tradition as being mere charlatans and poor teachers. This book, translated and significantly updated from its most recent Italian version (2nd edition, 2013), challenges these criticisms by offering an overall interpretation of their thought, and by assessing the specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon. A new vision of the Sophists emerges: they are protagonists and agents of fundamental change in the history of ancient philosophy, who questioned the grounds of morality and politics, as well as the nature of knowledge and language. By shifting the focus from the cosmos to man, the Sophists inaugurate an alternative form of philosophy, whose importance is only now becoming clear.
Read more- Provides an updated translation of Mauro Bonazzi's I Sofisti
- Offers a response to the prevalent criticism of the Sophists, that they were charlatans and poor teachers, by positioning them as agents of fundamental change in the history of ancient philosophy
- Offers both an overall interpretation of Sophistry as a whole and an assessment of specific thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon
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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108706216
- length: 160 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 156 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Foreword Mauro Bonazzi
1. The Sophists: history of a name and prejudice
2. Being and truth, humanity and reality
3. A world of words: the Sophists at the crossroads between grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and philosophy
4. Justice and law
5. Teaching virtue: the Sophists between happiness and success
6. The gods and religion
Appendix 1. The protagonists
Appendix 2. The Sophists and specialist forms of knowledge (Technai)
Bibliography
Index.
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