CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - William Arrowsmith, Schreier Domain, Columbia University Press
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Please see copyright information at the end of this document. Strepsiades, a rich gentleman of athens, was plunged into poverty and debt by his profligate son, Hounded by his son"s creditors, strepsiades pondered ways to prevent complete ruin. Hearing reports that the sophists taught a new logic which could be used to confuse one"s creditors and so get one out of debt, strepsiades saw in the sophist teachings a possible solution to his problem. Pheidippides to enter the school of the sophists and learn the new doctrines. When pheidippides, more interested in horse racing than in learning, refused to become a pupil, strepsiades denounced his son as a wastrel and decided to enroll himself. He went to the thoughtery or thinking-school, which was the term used for the classroom of the sophists, and asked to see socrates, the philosopher. After strepsiades had explained his purpose, socrates proceeded to demonstrate several logical conclusions of the new school.
