sophist

1 And when I am stretched beneath the pines Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;

当我在松树下伸展肢体晚星如此圣洁地闪耀， 我嘲笑：传统的学识和人类的孤傲，诡辩者的学堂，和博学者的宗族；

2 "Brief and concise were the sentences uttered by him: for he was no Sophist, but his word was the power of God."

3 In any case it was in answer to this call for sophia that the Sophists arose.

4 For once that we are the victims of designing Sophists, we are nine times the victims of our own irrational impulses and prejudices.

5 Whereas the philosopher sought the truth in a dispassionate way using reason as a guide, the Sophist addressing a crowd was indifferent to truth, seeking power and influence by appealing to the audience’s emotions.

6 Fletcher credits this way of reading to the ancient Greek Sophists, humble students who, “on gentle coves and white-sand islands … dedicated themselves to learning all about poem and myth.”

7 It is presumably short for Sophist; but all Americans will recognise it as the origin of their "Sophomore."

8 To do so is to make the mistake of the Sophists.

9 Thus oratory opened the way to personal ambition, and young men who were moved by that passion eagerly attended the Sophist schools where their dominant motive was strengthened.

10 This was the rhetorical training of the Sophists, the narrowly practical and individualistic aim of which was entirely out of harmony with the older Greek ideals of life and culture.

11 In the 3rd century, Diogenes Laertius compiled a Lives of the Philosophers, which is of greater interest than a Lives of the Sophists composed a hundred years later by Eunapius.

12 The necessities of rhetoric obliged the Sophists to investigate the structure of the Greek language, and to them was accordingly due the first History of formal grammar. analysis of Greek grammar.

13 Had he preferred to lead a life apart from men, and to follow an idle wisdom, Hercules would indeed have been a Sophist, and no one would call him the son of Zeus.

14 And if the exposition of the counter-intuitive position is placed in the hands of a cunning sophist, and the one who endorses common sense is plain and less learned, then the battle is already lost before it is begun.

15 His persecution called forth, as Lucian ungrudgingly admits, all the fearless love and charity of the worshippers of “the crucified Sophist.”

16 The Sophist Hippias, who himself earned and made all that he wore within and without, is the representative of the highest freedom of mind and personality.

17 The Greek conception of society was such that the life of the free-born citizen consisted mainly of his public function, and, therefore, the pseudo-ethical disquisitions of the Sophists satisfied the requirements of the age.

18 People who sought out the Sophists were primarily interested in furthering their political careers.

19 A famous problem concerning the cube, namely, to construct a cube of twice the volume of a given cube, was attacked with great vigour by the Pythagoreans, Sophists and Platonists.

20 In Plato’s most famous dialogue, the Republic, Socrates falls into conversation with the bold and intimidating Thrasymachus, who is a sophist—that is, one who offers instructions on how to argue a case, no matter its merit.

1 诡辩家

philosophist Jesuit casuist sophister

2 哲人

sage Maharishi pandit

3 诡辩者

pettifogger sophister whiffler eristic

4 思想家

thinker philosophe

5 学者

scholarly scholastic -logue student master doctor artist scholar clerk scribe pundit virtuoso savant swami bookman wonk wiseacre pandit hakim clerisy mallam ologist literatus philomath schoolman

6 智者

sage Solomon

7 哲学家

philosopher philosophe

8 诡辩学者

sophister

9 博学者

polyhistor