Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates

by Robert C. Bartlett

Book Overview

One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths." As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical relativism, we must therefore look first to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022663969X
• ISBN13: 9780226639697
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"