Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Release : 1971
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 669/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists by : William Keith Chambers Guthrie

Download or read book A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.