On trial for offenses against the Athenian public, The Apology finds philosopher and man-about-town Socrates engaged in a noble proclamation of his innocence. Found guilty and sentenced to death, Socrates is isolated to prison. He is confronted by a scheming friend, as he awaits execution. Plato's...
Rhetoricians, and most notably the Sophists, were believers in nomos. Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. Nomos is loosely translated as LAW; while PHYSIS is loosely translated as nature. Those who believed in NOMOS argued that reality, and therefore human understanding of tha...
Sophism Sophism teaches people the art of speech making and cross-examination. It is a clever way of arguing by using reason. The subjects that were taught by sophist were science, music, poetry, speech and cross-examinations. Scientific explanations are used to prove that oracles do not tel...
