WOF 376: Peter Kreeft on Socrates vs. the Sophists
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The War Between Socrates and the Sophists
Socrates, the Sophists and their war are perennial, and therefore contemporary. They were a group of itinerant teachers of rhetoric, or the art of persuasion. One for them was not by means of honest and objective logical argument,. But by clever tricks, concealed fallacies, and emotional appeals. This they called wisdom, and called themselves Sophists, or wise men. In contrast, Socrates called himself not a Sophist, but a philosophist, a philosopher, or a lover of wisdom.
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