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The sophists and Socrates
Authors: Balla, Chloi
Papamanoli, Kalliopi
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY > PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY > SOPHISTS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY > CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY > SOCRATES
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY > CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY > PLATO
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY > CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY > SOCRATES
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY > CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY > CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHERS, MISCELLANEOUS
Keywords:
Sophists
Relativism
Αntilogic
Correction of language
Atheism
Persuasion
Constitutions
Definition
Aporia
Wondering
Virtues
Wisdom
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Abstract:
The book examines the role the so-called ‘sophists’ on the one hand and Socrates on the other played in fifth-century Athenian intellectual life. It draws attention to their various contributions to philosophy. Following a current interpretative trend, the authors choose to treat Socrates as one of the many fifth-century teachers of wisdom, whom the historiography of philosophy, following the distinction between philosophy and sophistry that Plato and Aristotle introduced, presented unfavourably. The structure of the chapters is thematic. Based on the extant evidence, the authors aim to draw attention to the questions which are raised by the sophists and to their possibly original contribution to philosophy. The first two chapters deal with the social and historical background that gave rise to the so-called Sophistic Movement in fifth-century Athens and discuss questions of nomenclature. Chapters three to eight focus on individual questions: Language and communication; the implementation of argumentative skills in politics and its implication for theorizing politics; the criticism of pleonexia or greed; the criticism of traditional religion; theorizing language; Protagorean relativism. Chapters eleven to thirteen (as well as the Appendix) shift the discussion to Socrates. Chapter eleven draws attention to elements of Socrates’ argumentative practice that justify treating him as one of them and explains the need for Plato and Xenophon to ‘apologise’ to their teacher. By contrast, chapter twelve focuses on some typically Socratic and rather ‘non-Sophistic’ ideas that could justify his distinction from the ‘other Sophists’ (or invite us to reconsider our categories). Lastly, chapter thirteen and the appendix focus on two aspects of Socratic practice (the quest for definition and the role of aporia in philosophical investigation) that explain Socrates’ undisputed importance in the philosophical canon.
Linguistic Editors: Koulopoulos, Nikolaos
Graphic Editors: Bozionelos, Gavriil
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 20-03-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-172-7
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-405
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/11866
Bibliographic Reference: Balla, C., & Papamanoli, K. (2024). The sophists and Socrates [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-405
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Pericles’ Athens. Rise and Fall
2. Questions of nomenclature: wisemen, sophists, philosophers
3. The power of speech. Limits and prospects
4. From practice to theory: The case of politics
5. On greed
6. What God do they believe in after all?
7. On language correction
8. From rhetorical practice to epistemological concerns. Protagoras’ philosophical heritage
9. From the sophists to Socrates
10. Gods and daemons
11. The antilogic Socrates
12. “No matter how much he summoned It, no spirit appeared…”: Socrates’ heritage in natural science
13. The Socratic question what is
14. Appendix: From wondering to aporia
Number of pages 296
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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