KnowraSophistsLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Sophists, each with the reason it gives.All 11Broader topic 1Related 5Narrower topic 1Compared with 4RhetoricNarrower topic: Their teaching made persuasive skill a public art and prompted philosophical criticism.Socratic methodCompared with: Plato contrasts Socrates’ examination of truth with forms of persuasion associated with sophists.The CloudsRelated: The comedy blends anxieties about sophistic education with its portrait of Socrates.Ancient Greek philosophyCompared with: Their emphasis on persuasion and convention provoked Socratic and Platonic criticism.Pre-Socratic philosophyCompared with: Their attention to persuasion and human conventions differed from inquiries into nature's first principles.Greek philosophyRelated: Their status as philosophers or merely teachers remains contested in accounts of the tradition.IsocratesRelated: Isocrates competed with sophistic teachers while rejecting some of their educational claims.Apollonius of TyanaRelated: Philostratus wrote within the Greek intellectual culture that shaped Apollonius’s later reputation.Informal fallacyRelated: Their persuasive practices formed a central backdrop to early analysis of deceptive arguments.Sophistic movementBroader topic: The movement took its name from these itinerant teachers and their educational work.PlatoCompared with: Plato contrasts philosophical inquiry with persuasive teaching aimed at civic success.