Socrates the Sophist

Subject Areas : Epistemological researches

حسن فتحی ¹ (دانشیار گروه فلسفه ی دانشگاه تبریز)

Received: 2015-05-22 Accepted : 2015-05-22 Published : 2012-09-22

Keywords: Plato, Socrates, Sophists, Aristophanes, Athenian enlightenment,

Abstract :

Socrates is nowadays well-known as a philosopher, opponent of the Sophists of second half of the fifth century B.C., and the forerunner of a philosophical tradition cultivated by Plato and Aristotle, endured along with the whole history of philosophy with some alterations and moderations. But his contemporary Athenians sentenced him to death as a sophist, a heretic and a seducer of the youth. Was there anything in his character, method, behavior and sayings which led the Athenians to such a sentence? The present article answers this question. The conclusion is that there are some similarities between Socrates and the Sophists in the subject matter of discussion, in method, in individual character and in the content of teaching; these similarities can be seen in Plato’s dialogues too.

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