The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” They were essentially ...

But the essential nature of a culture war is invariant: A set of traditional values comes under attack by those who, like the Greek Sophist, the French philosophe and the American intellectual ...

The basic facts are these. Around the age of 15, Regilla wed Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, about age 40, a Greek sophist philosopher who had inherited a vast fortune.

If you're a young person (or a parent of one), you may be thinking some big thoughts about your future. Am I going to go to ...

Sophists had prestige in ancient Greek society From C D A Evans, Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, New York, NY, US ...

Kudos to Colorado’s own Greek sophists: Steve Skadron, Torre, Junee Kirk and Judy Brown for their efforts at saving Aspen’s historical character by questioning the shameful Historic Preservation ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on ...

The Greek sophist Gorgias lived into his 90s and believed he had done so because he never accepted dinner invitations.

In his writings, the Greek sophist Philostratus complains of the degeneration of athletics, blaming trainers who “have no regard for the reputation of the athletes, but become their advisers on ...

THERE exists a certain class of mind, allied perhaps to the ancient Greek Sophist variety, to which ignorance of a subject offers no sufficient obstacle to the composition of a treatise upon it ...