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Sophistic Movement
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The vast majority of today’s society isn’t the slightest bit aware of the tremendous influence the sophistic period of thought has had and continues to have on modern western politics. But how could a supposedly highly educated and intelligent people be so ignorant of such an important ....
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....the sophists, which is exactly what G.B. Kerferd attempts to do in his book “The ”.
According to Kerferd, at the foundation of sophistic though is the statement, made by its founder Protagoras, that “Man is the measure of all things.” Man considers things to be as they appear to him. To explain this phenomenon, Kerferd makes an example out of the wind. If one man says that the wind is cold, and the man standing beside him finds it to be warm, even if they were both bein.... |
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