Ancient Greek philosophers despised the Sophists’ rhetoric because it searched for relative truth, not absolutes. But learning how to do that thoughtfully can help constructive debates.

The so-called sophists were spokesmen for this intellectual position. Sophist basically means wise man and is the word used by Herodotus of Solon and Pythagoras, but when Hermes hurls it at Prometheus ...

Arguing that 'man is the measure of all things', the Sophists were skeptical about the existence of the gods and taught a variety of subjects, including mathematics, grammar, physics, political ...

Modern-day sophistry goes by various names: Disinformation, political spins, propaganda-setting, and now, after Donald ...

Modern technology bestows an abundance of blessings. The curses that it inflicts are less vivid, but they are neither hidden ...

Thinkers, called Sophists, migrated to the city from their traditional homes on the coast of Western Turkey. Historians, such as Herodotus, moved to the city to complete their researches.

Current interests include issues of kingship and gender in Herodotus; the use of local traditions in the panhellenic poetry of Pindar; Euripides and the sophists; Odysseus in Greek tragedy; the ...

Significant throughout time, announcements  have long served as a method of persuasion, an integral part of human society, ...

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.

Even the Sophists wouldn’t have been able to outdo Medvedev’s bizarre logic. “Why?” he asks. Because “The presence of an ...

Maria Michela Sassi (Edizioni Della Normale, Pisa: 2006) 103-121. "Archytas and the Sophists" in Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos, eds. Victor Caston and Daniel W.