GRK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Pheidippides, Sophist, Sophos
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Strepsiades fails out so he sends his son (pheidippides) instead. His son gets rid of the debts and then turns on his own farther and begins to beat him but justifies his actions with rhetoric: themes. Father and son role reversal when pheidippides beats strepsiades. Thinkery: sophists go to school here. Develop rhetoric so that they can change people"s truths to fit with their. Interested in truth which they believe is different for each individual own. Each puts emphasis on something different in both their speeches and their teachings. Social outcasts because they are selling wisdom which is looked down upon and corrupting the youth. Believe that there is no true truth. Create weird analogies that don"t really make sense. Research useless things like the size of a ticks foot and the meaning behind gnats" buzzes. Sophists in the clouds: socrates enters by mechane which is the same way that gods enter.
