Sofisté

The Sophists remain, in the ordinary sense, the villains and impostors of the history of philosophy, a regrettable aberration to which Socrates and Plato responded by charting the path of true thought. Moreover, their reflections have generally survived only in brief fragments or in paraphrases of thought rivaling Plato in the first place. Mauro Bonazzi shows that, while maintaining all the principles of careful philological analysis, it is possible to discover the remarkable and still inspiring role of thinkers classified as part of the Sophist movement as pragmatists, realists, and advocates of an anthropocentric perspective that is essential to the subsequent development of philosophy.

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