The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” ...

The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” ...

The Sophists did not all believe or follow the same things. For instance, some Sophists believed in democracy, while others argued that 'might is right' and advocated rule by oligarchies and tyrants.

The other path to take was that of sophistry. Many future Greek politicians, such as Pericles and Solon, were the students of sophists. These were teachers trained in the art of motivation and ...

But the essential nature of a culture war is invariant: A set of traditional values comes under attack by those who, like the Greek Sophist, the French philosophe and the American intellectual ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Janan Ganesh gets two things wrong in his column “We are all sophists now — or should be ...