When1: -450
When2: -350
Who: Sophists
What: philosophic school
Where: Athens, Greece
Detail: Protagoras, Isocrates, Hecataeus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Thrasymachus, Gorgias, Gorgias' student Callicles, Hippias, Prodicus, Cratylus, and Antiphon studied human nature, behavior, thinking processes, grammar, and semantics and criticized society.
Epistemology
Skilled public speaking and rhetoric can prove almost anything, so people must maintain skepticism. People cannot prove opinion but can prove that one opinion is better than others.
Ethics
Individuals are valuable. Knowledgeable people are useful and successful, so education is important.
Politics
Nobility, slavery, bad treatment of women, and unequal education and property are bad. People must obey laws.
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