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the sophists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| meaning of the world | teachers who tried teaching knowledge |
| rhetoric | persuasive language |
| sophistry | deceptive reasoning |
| relativism | what is right and wrong in debate |
| democracy and sophists | let people debate and majority won |
| socrates and sophists | poor and heckles sophists in agora |
| protagoras | truth depends on perception or culture |
| homo mensura | man is the measure |
| challenge beliefs | open minded to well reasoned arguments |
| protagoras paradox | the more you learn the less you know |
| gorgias | nothing exists |
| proving absurdity | if u can prove on thing you can prove absurdity |
| agnosticism | any god is unknown and unknowable |
| amoralism | morality isn't valid and can't judge behavior |
| justice as advantage | justice is what is advantageous to the stronger |
| morality vs power | truth and justice don't matter, power matters |