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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY I'KKSS
THE SOPHISTS
BY
W. K. C. GUTHRIE
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1971
ISBN ο 52i 09666 9
First published as Part 1 of A History of
Greek Philosophy, Volume ill (Cambridge University Press, 1969)
Reprinted 1977
Printed in Great Britain at the
University Press, Cambridge
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations page ix
Preface ι
I INTRODUCTION 3
II TOPICS OF THE DAY 14
III WHAT IS A SOPHIST? 27
(1) The word 'sophist' 27
(2) The Sophists 35
(a) Professionalism 35
(b) Inter-city status 40
(c) Methods 41
(d) Interests and general outlook 44
(e) Decline or adolescence? 49
(/) Rhetoric and scepticism 50
(g) Fate of sophistic literature: Plato and
Aristotle 51
IV THE 'NOMOS'-'PHYSIS' ANTITHESIS IN MORALS
AND POLITICS 55
(1) Introductory 55
(2) The upholders of nomos 60
(a) Anthropological theories of progress 60
(b) Protagoras on the original state of man 63
(c) Other equations of nomos with the just
and right (Critias, examples from Hero­
dotus and Euripides, Socrates, the Anon.
Iamblichi, pseudo-Lysias, the speech
against Aristogeiton) 68
Appendix: some passages descriptive of
human progress 79
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Contents
(3) The realists page 84
(a) Thucydides 84
(b) Thrasymachus in the Republic 88
(c) Glaucon and Adimantus 97
(d) Nature and necessity 99
(4) The upholders of physis 101
(a) Selfish 101
(i) Callicles: physis as the right of the
stronger 101
(ii) Antiphon: physis as enlightened
self-interest 107
(iii) Other witnesses (Euripides,
Ari