Beschreibung:
Richard McKirahan is the Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States of America and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This book offers a new way of looking at the 5th century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a "movement", each with his own speciality and personality as revealed through the scant surviving evidence.
1. Introduction; 2. Protagoras; 3. Gorgias; 4. Antiphon; 5. Hippias of Elis; 6. Prodicus of Ceos; 7. Thrasymachus of Chalcedon; 8. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus; 9. Logos; 10. Definition; 11. Antilogic; 12. Nomos and Phusis; 13. Isocrates; 14. Plato's complicated relationship with the Sophists; 15. Aristotle and the Sophists; Appendix: Texts relating to the Sophists