What about Socrates?

Question

Was Socrates a Sophist?

Answer 1

Socrates, who learned from Plato, who learned from Aristotle, taught the basis of what Abraham taught - "there is a realm high above this one, which, as you purify your spirit and refine your character, can enter that place, the place where only One God exists; the Creator of Heaven and earth.
Interesting enough, these were descendants of Abraham, later on his descendant Jacob/ (renames Isreal) who had 12 sons, had spread his progeny throughout the east. One name for them was the Samaritans ( a mixture of Greek and Jewish/Judah - one of the sons of Isreal).
Christ later spoke of the "good Samaritan".
America, as the root of the Greek culture, European of the French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish, Norwegian, British are the embodiment of the 12 tribes of Isreal.
Pretty cool huh?

Answer 2

Bad Bad cloudsRus!!! Aristotle, learned from Plato, who learned from Socrates.

And please don't blame my boy Socrates for Plato's lunacy of forms. Rational thought has suffered for millennia from the notion reality is poor reflection of some construed perfect cosmic template. Jeez, what tripe. Thank God Aristotle finally broke away from that deluded academic pinhead.

Oh yeah, the question. The sophists were very self absorbed. "Man is the measure of all things." And while their very subjective & relitivistic view of things is quite useful, it's a very small world. Socrates was to the Sophists, what Copernicus was to Ptolemy, he basicly said the universe does not revolve around man.

Socrates would argue that saying man is the measure of all things means nothing if you don't know what a man is.

So the short answer is No. Socrates returned objectivity to philosophy, and so becomes the father of science.

Answer 3

No.
Sophi means wise and originally was applied to any one who was wise in his field of expertise and taught this (wisdom )to others by being hired to do so.
at Aristotle s time a Sophist had come to mean an intellectual who's knowledge and skill for rhetoric could be hired.these people (sophists) were used to sway large groups of people ,with their eloquent speeches of propaganda to support or not support political issues or even governing bodies.they were not true to wisdom because their teaching depended on who was paying them.they also would stand as a representive for some one in a false lawsuit.(like a lawyer)
Plato regarded the "sophist" as someone who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand in order to deceive, or to support false reasoning. In this view, the sophist is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power,prestige and wealth. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle questioned the philosophical foundations of sophism.believeing them to be teachers in rhetoric and not of true wisdom.
Socrates never was for hire .he shared his wisdom for free and lived as a humble man devoted to truth and justice.
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Answer 4

He did not argue purely for the sake of argument and did not pursue ideas in a rhetorical way so in that vein he was not a sophist.

Socrates did not like the Sophists of his time, he was a seeker of the highest truth and beauty for their own sake, not for the sake of being smart or making a profit.

Answer 5

Of course he wasn't a sophist. I believe that if he were a sophist he would not be as important today as he actually is.

Answer 6

he was a sophist.All good they did was that they questioned everything.They used to gather and make long dialogs with each-other.They had a good way with words putting the others in difficulty(it was like an art to them).