Sophist
['sɒfɪst] or ['sɑfɪst]
解释:
(noun.) any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.
手打:奥齐--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
(n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
整理:梅纳德
例句:
- Such is the Sophist's wisdom, and such is the condition of those who make public opinion the test of truth, whether in art or in morals. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Neither here nor in the Phaedrus or Symposium, nor yet in the Philebus or Sophist, does he give any clear explanation of his meaning. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They are generally the disciples of some eminent professor or sophist, whom they rather imitate than understand. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Nor does he assert in the Republic the involuntariness of vice, which is maintained by him in the Timaeus, Sophist, and Laws (Protag. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- What principle of rival Sophists or anybody else can overcome in such an unequal contest? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Are not the public who say these things the greatest of all Sophists? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Later the traveling teachers, known as the Sophists, began to apply the results and the methods of the natural philosophers to human conduct. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- He is ironical, provoking, questioning, the old enemy of the Sophists, ready to put on the mask of Silenus as well as to argue seriously. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The poets, as he says in the Protagoras, were the Sophists of their day; and his dislike of the one class is reflected on the other. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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