Mauro Bonazzi

Sophists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This translated volume presents a new vision of the Sophists. It assesses specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon, and how they shifted the focus of ancient philosophy from the cosmos to man through their questioning of the nature of knowledge and language and the grounds of morality and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781108706216
• ISBN-10: 1108706215
• Artikelnr.: 61146594

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Mauro Bonazzi
1. The Sophists: history of a name and prejudice
2. Being and truth, humanity and reality
3. A world of words: the Sophists at the crossroads between grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and philosophy
4. Justice and law
5. Teaching virtue: the Sophists between happiness and success
6. The gods and religion
Appendix 1. The protagonists
Appendix 2. The Sophists and specialist forms of knowledge (Technai)
Bibliography
Index.