Sophists, Socratics and Cynics

ISBN-13: 9781138781528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 266 str.

David Rankin

Opis

The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world. Rankin discusses what social needs prompted the development of their theories and provided a market for their teaching.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations; Preface 1. The Sophistic Movement: Beginnings and Identity 2. Five Prominent Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus 3. Less Prominent Sophists 4. Nature Versus Law, Relativism and the Origins of Society 5. First Philosophies? 6. Thucydides: Sophistic Method and Historical Research 7. Sophistry and Tragedy 8. Atheism 9. Socrates 10. Plato 11. The Socratics 12. Antisthenes 13. Diogenes and the Cynics 14. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Rankin, David