Socrates and the Sophists: Philosophy is coming to town

Socrates and the Sophists: Philosophy is coming to town

Welcome back to my Ancient Greek Philosophy series!
In this video we are introduced to the Sophists, with Socrates as our guide, in the form of a Platonic dialogue. Enjoy!
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Video Chapter Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Context - Athens' Golden Age
01:54 The Philosophical Encounter
02:13 Hippias of Elis
05:22 Gorgias of Leontinoi
09:17 Thrasymachus of Chalcedon
12:08 Protagoras of Abdera
14:52 Closing Thoughts

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Sources:

Balaban, O. (1999). Plato and Protagoras: Truth and Relativism in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Lexington Books

Laks, A. & Most, G. W. (eds.) (2016). Early Greek Philosophy. Loeb Classical Library 525-532. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Larsen, J. K. (2011). The Quarrel Between Sophistry and Philosophy. University of Copenhagen
https://philarchive.org/archive/LARTQB-2

Plato. Gorgias
Plato. Hippias Major
Plato. Hippias Minor
Plato. Protagoras
Plato. Sophist
Plato. Theaetetus
Plato. The Republic
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Rep.+1.338c&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168

Thaning, M. S. & Gersel, J. (2019). Pseudo-educational Discourse: Plato's Conception of Sophistry. in Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Zilioli, U. (2007). Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism. New York, NY: Routledge

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