The poet makes the fable; the sophist carries it on.
A sophistmight easily transform this psychological necessity into a dazzling proof of immortality.
The sophist himself, without confessing it, enacts a special interest.
The autonomous moralist differs from the sophist or ethical sceptic in this: that he retains his integrity.
De Permutatione, wherein it is evident that he was not only ranked as a sophistby others, but also considered himself as such, though the appellation was one which he did not like.
Certain it is that in the Platonic dialogue, called “Protagoras,” that sophist is introduced speaking about the gods exactly in the manner that any orthodox pagan might naturally adopt.
But along with this idea, the title sophist also carried with it or connoted a certain invidious feeling.
What would they have felt then towards a sophist who publicly professed the political morality of Kalliklês?
Isokratês does not admit any such distinction between the philosopher and dialectician on the one side, and the sophist on the other, as Plato and Aristotle contend for.
In the Platonic dialogue termed Protagoras, that sophist is introduced as describing the manner in which he proceeded respecting remuneration from his pupils.
Timon, who hated the philosophers, thus found the word sophist exactly suitable, in sentiment as well as meaning, to his purpose in addressing them.
If thesophist erred in either way, it would be in that which Sokratês imputes, by making his lectures over-democratical.
Forbidden in spite of the Emperor's edict regarding religious freedom," broke in the Sophist Priscus.
Thus Pericles sought to direct the conversation into a new channel, but the Sophist thwarted him.
If I were a Sophist like Protagoras, I should answer, 'It was Hippolytus who said that; not I.
But it is now generally agreed that the real author was a sophist of the 3rd century A.
The wandering sophist and rhetorician would find a hearing no less than the musical artist.
His suspicions are unsupported by fact or argument; and we can only esteem the generous zeal of the sophist of Antioch for the cold and neglected ashes of his friend.
The sophist of Antioch appears ignorant that the troops were hungry.
The sophist deplores the public frenzy, but he does not (after their deaths) impeach the justice of the emperors.
He informed Libanius of his progress as far as Hierapolis, by an elegant epistle, [33] which displays the facility of his genius, and his tender friendship for the sophist of Antioch.
The sophist owns and justifies the expense of these military conversions.
The Greek sophist must have considered as one and the same war, the whole series of Gothic history till the victories and peace of Theodosius.
The sophist of Antioch, who saw with indignation the sceptre of his hero in the feeble hand of a Christian successor, professes to admire the moderation of Sapor, in contenting himself with so small a portion of the Roman empire.
The love of fame was the ardent passion of his soul: but it was not before he trampled on the ruins of Maogamalcha, that he allowed himself to say, "We have now provided some materials for the sophist of Antioch.
Footnote 130: Compare the sophist and the saint, (Libanius, Monod.
Protagoras was a sophist with knowledge on an extraordinary number of subjects, and one of the most eloquent among the first inventors of the art of rhetoric.
Protagoras, a famous sophist of Abdera (latter half of fifth century).
But the reward I offer you is not that which the sophist Protagoras stipulated to receive and never got, but that which the wise Thales got without ever stipulating for it.
A Roman sophistof Praeneste in the reign of Adrian.
But for this sophist even Plato's satire is kindly and almost reverent.
One great word of liberation was already in the air and belongs to no one sophist or philosopher.
The historian Herodotus, who was no sophist but loved a good story, tells how the Persian king, Darius, called some Greeks and some Indian tribesmen together into his presence.
This is what the physician tries to do by his drugs; this is what the Sophist tries to do by his words.
This was the exact opposite of what Protagoras the sophist had taught, the opposite of the gospel of individualism (see p.
Instead of being a sophist in theory, you will be a sophist in practice.
His plans to make himself king at Sparta—discourse of the sophist Kleon.
We may remark, however, that according to the characteristic of the true Sophist here given by Plato, Protagoras and Prodikus were less of Sophists than Sokrates.
He says that the Sophist is a disputatious man who challenges every one for speaking falsehood.
Still we cannot help admitting the Sophist to represent this improving process--that is, the high and true bred Sophist.
He then proceeds to conjecture, from the little which we know respecting Protagoras, what that Sophist must have laid down upon the origin of names; and he finishes by assuming the very point which he ought to have proved (p.
Upon this point, brought forward by Plato both directly and with his remarkable fertility in multiplying indirect allusions, the peculiarity of the Sophist is made mainly to turn.
He is the perfect and accomplished Sophist and the great benefactor of the other world; for he has much more than he wants there, and hence he is called Pluto or the rich.
Here, as in the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly draws attention to the want of agreement in words and things.
Yes, I replied, that is very likely true, but not enough; for in the answer a further question is involved: Of what does the Sophist make a man talk eloquently?
And yet I hardly think that you know what a Sophist is; and if not, then you do not even know to whom you are committing your soul and whether the thing to which you commit yourself be good or evil.
And what is that which the Sophist knows and makes his disciple know?
Greek sophist and philosopher, flourished during the reign of Hadrian.
It was Favorinus who, on being silenced by Hadrian in an argument in which the sophist might easily have refuted his adversary, subsequently explained that it was foolish to criticize the logic of the master of thirty legions.
Laws); and according to Plato it was the sophist Prodicus who first pointed out the connexion between gymnastics and health.
The sophist Favorinus was more politic; when reproached for yielding too readily to the emperor in some grammatical discussion, he replied that it was unwise to contradict the master of thirty legions.
Sophist say: it is the wit of a journeyman such as we find in Eulenspiegel.
The person who is thus fortified by a Socratic dialectic will be less ready to surrender his imagination to the first sophist who urges him to be “progressive.
The ancient sophistat least made man the measure of all things.
In short, Rousseau displays the usual dexterity of the sophist in juggling with ill-defined general terms.
The modernsophist is even more a votary of the god Whirl than the Greek, for he has added to the mobility of an intellect that has no support in either tradition or insight the mobility of feeling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sophist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: culture; philosopher; sophist; speculator; thinker
