HIST 1001 Chapter : Greek Philosophy/Rise Of Macedon
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Sophists: weren"t searching for primary elements or the explanations of the universe. In athens, people begin to worry about relativism, because it could undermine the legal and moral base of the polis: believed that some of the sophists were dangerous, and would do harm to the idea of justice. In 399, he was accused of disturbing the stability of the society: placed on trial, peloponnesian war just ended, looking for scapegoats, relentlessly questioned and harassed athenian standards of justice and truth. Irritated a lot of prominent people: friends of one of the prominent traders, found guilty, given two options, exile, suicide, didn"t write anything, anything on him came from his students notably plato, one of his greatest students. Plato (429-347 bc: wanted to prove that absolutes existed, wanted to comprehend those absolutes. Aristotle (384-322 bc: student of plato, had a different view than plato, because he wrote on so many topics, wrote much more extensively than plato.
