plato vs sophists
Plato, Socrates’ protégé, stabilizes his philosophies of rhetoric and the use of these devices in search of virtue. Aristocratic Plato carried out much of Socrates’ work after his mentor’s death. ... C Plato founded the most famous school in the classical world, the Academy , and one of the greatest outcomes from this school was his most famous pupil, Aristotle. ... Now, there was another group of teachers who were famous for their method of teaching which Plato was opposed to; the Sophists. Sophists were philosophers from all parts of the Grecian world who were in search for fortune and offered their teachings in exchange for fees, indifferent to Plato’s outlook. Plato looked down on the Sophists mainly due to their fortune seeking agenda, their views on virtue, and their method of teaching. The sophists (name deriving from “Sophia” meaning wisdom), who were a new field of educators who came about during the time in which within the experimental democratic systems in Athens and Greek colonies in Sicily there was a new awareness of selected citizens being able to participate in government.