Sophists
Paid teachers of wisdom and rhetoric: truth and law depend on people
Key ideas
- "Man is the measure of all things" (Protagoras)
- Laws are human convention, not nature
- The art of persuasion and arguing both sides
- Attention turns from nature to people and society
Key thinkers
- Protagoras (founder) — Greek sophist philosopher, 490 BC–420 BC
Meanwhile elsewhere
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- Taoism Asia
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