Sophist

(noun.) any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.

手打:奥齐

• Such is the Sophist's wisdom, and such is the condition of those who make public opinion the test of truth, whether in art or in morals. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Neither here nor in the Phaedrus or Symposium, nor yet in the Philebus or Sophist, does he give any clear explanation of his meaning. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They are generally the disciples of some eminent professor or sophist, whom they rather imitate than understand. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Nor does he assert in the Republic the involuntariness of vice, which is maintained by him in the Timaeus, Sophist, and Laws (Protag. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What principle of rival Sophists or anybody else can overcome in such an unequal contest? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Are not the public who say these things the greatest of all Sophists? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Later the traveling teachers, known as the Sophists, began to apply the results and the methods of the natural philosophers to human conduct. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He is ironical, provoking, questioning, the old enemy of the Sophists, ready to put on the mask of Silenus as well as to argue seriously. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The poets, as he says in the Protagoras, were the Sophists of their day; and his dislike of the one class is reflected on the other. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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