@book{cb392e885aa240259d46673f2cf2f164,
title = "The Sophists",
abstract = "The Sophists have been often attacked by a authoritative tradition, from Socrates and Plato onwards, as mere charlatans and bad teachers. This book challenges this criticisms by offering an overall interpretation of their thought, and by assessing the specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon. In fact, the Sophists were the protagonists of dramatic and fundamental changes in the history of Ancient Philosophy, by questioning the bases of morality and politics, and the nature of knowledge and language. They shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man, and in so doing they inaugurated an alternative form of philosophy, whose importance only recently is becoming clear.",
keywords = "sophists, Protagoras, Gorgias, Greek political thought",
author = "M. Bonazzi",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "0533-2451",
series = "New Surveys in the Classics",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}