Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Janan Ganesh gets two things wrong in his column “We are all sophists now — or should be” (August 21).

The first major thinker to move to Athens from abroad was Anaxagoras. Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious opinion by claiming (correctly) that the moon was lit by ...

If you’ve ever attended a high-energy seminar where a speaker yells, “unleash your greatness!” while pacing in an expensive suit reflective of poor fashion sense, congratulations – you’ve witnessed ...

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 strength of ...

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. It ...