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How was socrates a sophist?
Okay, well, my viewpoint is: the reason why one could argue that Socrates was a "common" sophist (being payed for knowledge) is, because he also got payed for his knowledge, more often with (personal) favours than with monay, but he was pay... Read More »
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How was socrates different from the sophists?
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Why did Sophist disagree with the Socrates?
Sophists believed that there was no absolute right or wrong that what was right for one might be wrong for another. Socrates believed that an absolute truth existed and that all real knowledge was within a person. Socrates also invented the... Read More »
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that sophists thought that knowledge was a way to improve ur life and socrates thought that there was an absolute right or wrong
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For one thing, the sophists taught for money. Socrates did not. For another, the sophists used language to win arguments and to sway people's opinion regardless of the truth. Socrates used language to attain the truth. What did he think he ...
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Socrates main beef with sophists was that they made claims that they had knowledge and yet when he inquired of them they were unable to soundly defend and define the knowledge they claimed to have, the sophist professed that they knew truth...
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Alcibiades wasn't a sophist. He was, however, a scheming ********. He had Athens wrapped around his finger, fled, betrayed them, joined Sparta, had THEM around his finger, betrayed them, influenced the Phoenicians, left, betrayed THEM, join...
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Socrates, who learned from Plato, who learned from Aristotle, taught the basis of what Abraham taught - "there is a realm high above this one, which, as you purify your spirit and refine your character, can enter that place, the place where...
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The Sophists were hired by the wealthy to speak on any subject. Their teachings were based on no knowledge of the material and used well-formed words to persuade people to believe in them. Their view was that knowledge and understanding wer...
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i think,,,, therefore.. i am.. becoming!
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