Sophists

Ancient Sophistry & The Car Salesman

By Jacob Bell, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom My recent venture into the world of car sales caused me to realize that sophistry, in its most shameful guise, is still alive and well today. I am speaking of the sophistry that seeks to deceive in order to profit… either in sales or politics. During the second

Written on April 20, 2022 at 10:12 pm, by Jacob Bell

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Car Salesmen, Euthydemus, Gorgias, Philosophy, Plato, socrates, Sophists

Aristophanes and The Clouds

by Ed Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom He’s known as the ‘Father of Comedy.’ He is regarded as the greatest comedic dramatist of the ancient world, and his work is surprisingly interlinked with the history of philosophy. He even appears as a character in Plato’s Symposium, where he is shown as a genial figure who

Written on February 11, 2022 at 6:05 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: Literature

Tags: Aristophanes, death of socrates, Old Comedy, Sophists, The Clouds

Ethical Egoism: Getting What You Want

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom There are a few advantages we have going for us when we study moral philosophy. The first is that moral philosophy (also known as ethical philosophy) is immediately applicable to our lives. The second is that many of the suppositions seem to be rather easy to confirm.

Written on June 18, 2020 at 8:18 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Ancient Greek Moral philosophy, Aristotle, Asclepius, Callicles, ethical egoism, Ethics, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Plato, socrates, Sophism, Sophists

Protagoras & Relativism

By Jacob Bell, Associate Editor, Classical Wisdom “Man is the measure of all things…” It is likely that you have heard this phrase uttered at one time or the other. It is an explicit declaration of relativism, and one of the earliest accounts of such a theory. It was Protagoras who made this statement. He

Written on May 31, 2019 at 9:48 am, by Jacob Bell

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Categories: Pre-Socratics

Tags: Epistemology, pre-socratics, PROTAGORAS, relativism, sophistry, Sophists, subjectivity

Ancient Sophistry & The Car Salesman

By Jacob Bell, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom My recent venture into the world of car sales caused me to realize that sophistry, in its most shameful guise, is still alive and well today. I am speaking of the sophistry that seeks to deceive in order to profit… either in sales or politics. During the second

Written on February 15, 2019 at 4:25 pm, by Jacob Bell

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Car Salesmen, Euthydemus, Gorgias, Philosophy, Plato, socrates, Sophists

Isocrates: The Essayist

By Ben Potter In many ways Isocrates is the forgotten man of Classical Greece. As a product of Athens’ Golden Age, he was a contemporary of Plato, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aristotle, et al,… just without their fame or everlasting glory. And it’s not that he didn’t deserve it. Indeed, a case can be made that

Written on April 17, 2015 at 9:43 pm, by plato

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Categories: People

Tags: Alexander the Great, Apology, Cicero, Isocrates, Panegyricus, Peloponessian War, Philip II, Philippus, socrates, Sophists