Sophist

This was completely different than what the Sophists of his time believed. Sophists were the teachers that roamed Greek cities in order to teach the youth for money. They weren’t very focused on staying truthful either. He was by no means a fan of sophists. Socrates also helped shape logic by introducing Ethos. To him, how people acted and their soul’s well being were of the utmost importance. In one…

A sophist teacher will teach rhetoric, natural philosophy and psychology. How did these study help aristocrats in their political careers? Rhetoric teach individuals how to speak. “Damon appears to have to have been a sophist of the highest order who used musical to teach rhetoric” (Plutarch pg. 168). Damon understood that when one prepare a speech in front of a…

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and philosopher, is known for his contributions to the topic of political realism. One of his most notable works on this subject tells the history of the Peloponnesian War. Halfway through this war, Athens decided that they wanted to take over the last island that was not theirs. The conflict that arose between the Athenians and the people of the island Melos gave life to the quote “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” I agree with…

Thucydides shared a common trait with Pericles in that they both failed at their military attempts during the Peloponnesian War. However, Thucydides was exiled for his failures and although Pericles was removed from his, he was later re-elected. Being a sophist in history, Thucydides took the opportunity to re-count Pericles’ speech to show that Athens’ states man was one sided and failed to address any faults that Athens experienced. Pericles failed to mention that the reason Athens was…

Socrates came to be the icon of philosophy due to his unique way of teaching which was the Socratic Method which involved questioning ideas and beliefs and then questioning the responses that was received. As a young man Socrates served in the military and fought in three wars. Thereafter Socrates spent the rest of his life preaching and discussing his fundamental ideas with all sorts of people including artists, poets, educators and politicians. REPHRASE THIS SENTENCE: Socrates had dialogues…

because if Socrates is such an evil-doer then why was Socrates trying to teach the children something that even the Sophists couldn’t teach them. He wanted to teach the children the things that the Sophists couldn’t teach, but people like Callias would rather pay someone else to teach. Socrates mentions in his trial, “I came across a man who has spent a world of money on the Sophists” (Plato, 2016). Why would Callias rather pay someone to teach his children things that only Socrates could teach…

philosopher-king was a king who would have a grasp of the true and enduring, would not fear death, would be fair-minded, gentle and sociable, brave, temperate, and would work to preserve the status quo. Everything started with the kind of men called the Sophists. They were intelligent men, and they taught various subjects to the people in Roman Republic, mostly nobles and aristocrats, like grammar, rhetoric (debating, argument, logic) and…

republic but also arises in various modern topics such as murder, religion, and science. In Plato’s republic, object morality arises from the argument of justice between Plato’s mentor, Socrates, and Thrasymachus, a self-assertive and noisy sophist. Sophists did not believe in objective moral…

discussed the marketing and production aspects of the film, providing the quantitative figures. More importantly, I establish Reitman’s motivations and style in his script which allow us to derive the conclusion that the individual characters are sophists, but the film is rhetorical. First-time producer David Sacks, and the executive producers all originate from a corporate background, with the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel also involved. This is an interesting point, as one could argue…

world’s best yo-yo-er to teach you how to be better, but in respect to virtue, where would you find the most virtuous person? There were two great suggestions of people to learn virtue from, a sophist or a good man. Both were not considered valid answers because a good man cannot produce good sons. A sophist cannot teach virtue because they themselves are debating if virtue is teachable or not. So, from Meno’s evidence, learning is…