Sophistry · Atlas

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ProtagorasClassical · Greek

The profession and craft of the sophist, repeatedly examined, defined, and defended across the passage.

I admit that I am a sophist and that I educate men;

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Then tell me, please, what you consider a sophist to be.

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Well, about what does the sophist make one a clever speaker?

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SophistClassical · Greek

The central object of definition in the passage: a figure repeatedly redefined through the method of division as, in turn, a hunter of wealthy youths, a merchant and retailer of knowledge, a seller of his own intellectual wares, a paid disputant, and a purger of false conceit of wisdom.

Sophist, statesman, philosopher.

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Then we must catch him with both.

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but I will try to recall the fifth case myself.

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